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NO SWEETNESS HERE (For Ama Ata Aidoo)

IaThere is no sweetness in your goneEven considering all that you’ve doneFrom the day your ink was born…to death’s fierce conI stand at the same place of your confused ghostTo ask if I should call your name in thanks on the coast…or through land’s queer hostAnd I sigh IbRemembering AnowaThrows showers on Our Sister KilljoyShowing […]

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FOR AMA ATA AIDOO

It is only the worst of handsWhich push a feeder into the abyss of deathWanting the best of praises with bandsIn a celebration so far from birthYou sure will live long! III can imagineI can imagine the horror of feeling like one…who has outlived her worldly welcomeI can imagineI can imagine the feeling of seeing […]