Activities of Shehu Abubakar Niasse

There's a cutting sound of knives and machetes from the yard, hitting bones, as plates clatter in the kitchen & pots burn black. Glasses clink as men say 'Cheers to more.' I say, 'Cheers to more.'

In the center of Mecca, women in simple coverings and men in plain robes pray and circumambulate. Eid is here again, with nostalgic whiffs of burning meat and the fragrance of loved ones nearby.
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meelah,
how long before the star in your eyes impregnates my heart.
how long before the slaughter becomes a kill.
i have brought myself to you surrendered, laid on the slaughter slab—
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They don't know how and don't want to try. Were once crawlers birds that fly.

When a black boy smiles,
His teeth are gold.
That's his greatest possession
Yet he avails it to all— free, unsold.
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