Contributor: Ajise Vincent

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Poetry is business
for the shade of beauty,
for the erraticism of emotions,
for the errors of language
& the dynamism of verses.
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Poetry is business
for the slayers of myths,
for the chattels of veterans,
for the (r)age of renaissance
& the charlatans of indifference.


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Ajise Vincent, Nigerian poet who derives utility from the smell of coffee, the erraticism of nature and the dynamism of solitude.

Contributor: Ajise Vincent

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I.

Not all fathers
are efficacious, Sheriff.
Don't revere all.

II.

Some are emissaries of addiction:
They are ambulatory chimneys
that sacrifice their children's tuition
to the greedy god of marijuana.

III.

Some are financiers of impropriety:
They buy then slough crevices of preteens
till marginal utility begins to have pity. Pedophilia.

IV.

Wirra! There are many
who smile illustriously, but like
pestles that flog mortars
with oscillatory vigour,
they re-create the faces
of their wives with blows.
Lo! Their wives are now new creations.

V.

The father of the boy next-door
falls in all categories, sir.


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Ajise Vincent has been through the turmoil, love and anomalies of this world. His works have been published in various literary outlets. He writes from Lagos, Nigeria.