Orike Didi Biography

the triangle-
canons;
clowns
and all
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and
preachermen
politicians
prostitutes,
...

Let it be today
That I am one with the trees.

I commune with the earth, rooted
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Like roots we dug deep, like roots
We dug into the depth of her soul.
Her flesh had quaked with fever in a long drawn battle with herbs,
Her stride slowed like the coming pain of her children,
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I don’t stand out famous
Like Mandela’s cell
Or Soyinka’s cloud head
Or obj’s false faces.
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