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Student, Content and lifestyle Writer, Poet @ Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA)
Akure, Nigeria
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THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE DYING RAT
<p>The night came,</p><p>I was delivered of twenty- and five pup,</p><p>Joy amidst our camp, celebration galore,</p><p>I was happy I'm a mother after a decade.</p><p></p><p>Pretty pups I gave birth to, male and female,</p><p>They glowed radiantly like crystal balls.</p><p>Moment later after their birth,</p><p>I was hungry because they sucked me deep.</p><p></p><p>I hoped out in search of food,</p><p>Down the city lane my feet trudged,</p><p>Away to Chief Owonikoko's Villa,</p><p>My popular home of visit I guess.</p><p></p><p>I entered through my normal entry, the back door,</p><p>And I made a quick hop into the kitchen;</p><p>I smelt something sumptuous,</p><p>I guessed, "it's Jollof rice"</p><p></p><p>Little do I know that my enemies were around,</p><p>They did well to plan a coup against me;</p><p>Foolish me, I hopped towards the direction</p><p>where I perceived the aroma, but unfortunately,</p><p></p><p>I got stucked by a golden trap.</p><p>I wiggled, wiggled, until all my flesh got tore,</p><p>I wailed and yowled in silence;</p><p>But my voice wasn't heard.</p><p></p><p>When the pain seemed unbearable,</p><p>And my chances of escaping grew thin,</p><p>I shouted in great agony;</p><p>"I was only hungry"</p><p></p><p>My voices were eventually heard, but it only </p><p>worsen the whole situation.</p><p>I should have kept mute, I guessed,</p><p>They all came with their dangerous weapon.</p><p></p><p>Slippers, turning stick, plank and all.</p><p>With happiness in their voices,</p><p>They all ululated, "yes we found it"!</p><p>What gross is grosser than this?</p><p></p><p>Kpa, kpo, kpa, kpo, kpa, kpo, kpa.</p><p>They weirded me with their weapon,</p><p>I was wounded beyond recognition,</p><p>I wonder whether I was an image.</p><p></p><p>Dwellers on and beneath the earth</p><p>Those above and over the cloud</p><p>Tell my children to stay deep down their holes</p><p>Far away from where mortals do tread.</p><p></p>
THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE DYING RAT
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