The Anniversary Of Nothing (Poem) (Repost)
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I understand the poem perfectly well, and I have developed the technique in Etches on Fresh Waters.
I threw a challenge: suppose there is polygamy, what happens?
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I understand the poem perfectly well, and I have developed the technique in Etches on Fresh Waters.
Nimi Wariboko
Dear Professor Gloria:
Falola is not talking about polyandry. He knows well that an impotent man will not do the job whether he is with one woman or multiple women. He is not talking about the women having multiple husbands to have children. Falola is challenging us to see some of the hidden ways polygamy works to produce children. He wants us to consider that in a polygamous home when the man is impotent (the man knows it and the wives know it), the women can help themselves to pregnancy by sleeping with other men. This is why he is invoking polygamy. There are multiple stories about this practice in Nigeria, tales about the hidden weapons of wives frustrated by weak penises. Often these straying women do their thing discreetly to maintain their dignity and that of their husbands.
This “hidden practice or weapon” can also happen in monogamous families. But the issue might be more prevalent in large polygamous homes where the women wait for a long time to get to their turns to sleep with their husbands. The practice of sleeping with other men in some cases would have been well habituated before impotency starts.
Falola is only messing up with our brains. He wants us to go beyond the ordinary or usual ways we think about the production of children in marriages. For him, the poem does not point to this fact before announcing fruitlessness, childlessness in the marriage. There is more than one way to be fruitful in a marriage. Thanks for your attention.
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And back in 1971 , nine years after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)
Marvin Gaye : Mercy Mercy Me ( the Ecology
Right Livelihood Award : The environment
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Re-
“.Feminine fingers.
Fondling.
Flabby phallus.
Luscious love pod.
Her fondling failed
To fire his libido,
To flare his flabby phallus.
Her luscious love pod
Agape,
Failed
To tug him to turgidity.” etc
Culminating in
“The celebrations of impotency,
The anniversaries of nothing.”
There’s no harm for even a feminist (a sexually satisfied, not a sexually starved and sexually frustrated one) viewing that kind of poem about somebody’s wedding anniversary as “a beautiful poem.”
She says that he poem reminds her of Ousmane Sembene’s awesome “ Xala,” -” although the context is somewhat different.But at the end of the day, it is about
erectile dysfunction.” ( The poor woman, her luscious lovepod forever agape, wanting...
Inexplicably the poem is funny and at the same time inexorably tragic , whether it’s about someone 63rd wedding anniversary or somebody’s 63rd Independence Anniversary,
On the opposite spiritual slope
How wonderful if instead of all this gloom and doom we the Romantics would celebrate the rites of spring - the Season of May with this kind of carefree enthusiasm and abandon
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance” (Japanese Proverb)
The poem reminds me of this excerpt from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot :
“ I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
‘What is that noise?’
The wind under the door.
‘What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?’
Nothing again nothing.
‘Do
‘You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
‘Nothing?’
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
‘Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?’
Concerning what Ojogbon said (“ I understand the poem perfectly well, and I have developed the technique in Etches on Fresh Waters.”) I’d just like to inform you 'all that
ETCHES ON FRESH WATERS is my Yoruba Bible and according to my last will and testament it’s a family heirloom.
Nuff said
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