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Toyin Falola

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Dec 5, 2024, 8:21:08 AM12/5/24
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Emi Lo Kan: Where Can I get One

"Cash and Carry" at the ever-expansive degree-spinning markets
Filled with hollows,
And wheel barrows
without loads!
and  cultivating furrows
without seeds!

Of awkwardness like madness!
and brows without values
And and legs without movement, 
But only empty box of the frontal lobe.

What can't an envelope do?
What can't gluttons devour?
As grinning faces rush
and spring without any springboard,
"Where can I get one?"
"Here! Come if you can't get any there?
Do you have money?"
"Yes, I do. How much?"
"Get your ear close to my mouth."
"Got you!" (Smiles and chuckles!)
"Deal or no deal?
Racket of the toothless crickets
Noise turning to meanings 
Meanings turning to noise.


Isn't that something else?
Breathing without oxygen!
Breathing with carbon dioxide!
Isn't that something!

"Where I can I get one?"

Internal voice of many
As one market day fades and another opens!
"Where can I get one?"
"Keep looking until you get it!"
It -endless, loud rackets of the crickets debasing values.

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Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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Painfully beautiful poem


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Bayo Omolola

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Correction

Emi Lo Kan: Where Can I get One?

"Cash and Carry" at the ever-expansive degree-spinning markets
Filled with hollows,
And wheel barrows
without loads!
and  cultivating furrows
without seeds!

Of awkwardness like madness!
and brows without values
And legs without movement, 
But only empty box in the frontal lobe.

What can't an envelope do?
What can't gluttons devour?

As grinning faces rush to camera lenses and features in different media
As they spring without any springboard, 
"Where can I get one?"
"Here! Come if you can't get any there?
Do you have money?"
"Yes, I do. How much?"
"Get your ear close to my mouth."
"Got you!" (Smiles and chuckles!)
"Deal or no deal?
Racket of the toothless crickets
Noise turning to meanings 
Meanings turning to noise.


Isn't that something else?
Breathing without oxygen!
Breathing with carbon dioxide!
Isn't that something!

"Where I can I get one?"

Internal voice of many
As one market day fades and another opens!
"Where can I get one?"
"Keep looking until you get it?"
It -endless, loud rackets of the crickets debasing values.

Báyọ̀ Ọmọlọlá
On Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 08:21:09 AM EST, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


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