Gedion Onyango Poems

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1.
I Hate Religion

Of course, I do
I hate all those rituals
I loath it like sin
I hate whatever it stands for
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2.
Extra-Generational Greed

It's long since I stopped believing in human wisdom.
Long since I stopped distinguishing wisdom of the old - and
Stupidity of the new generation
It's un-intelligible to know what the new generation does differently
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3.
The Witchdoctor

The doctor in my village is a witch
That is why I like yours
He wear refined costumes
He hardly talk with threats
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4.
Second Class Citizen

The other day the medicine sublimed from a public hospital
The other day we saw over the television the statesman
Promising to stop insanity in the medical sector
And stop the deaths over the floors of hospital corridors and rusted squawky beds
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5.
Citizens And Subjects

We are not tribal, neither are we racist
we don't discriminate with our religions
we are a great people of sound mind and conscience
we are a creative population of great ambitions
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6.
Nothing New

I once trudged these soils!
Flipping my chipping depleting skin. Face. limbs and nibs of knowledge
I experienced the sweetness. bitterness. Beauty and incorrigibility of nature
But I knew not his face. I knew no his soul.
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7.
23rd November

On 23rd November, and
the lateness of young evening hours
you tasted the air, and glittered the hearts
All eyes, and mauling anxieties demised
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8.
Death Of Intelligible Politics

These days when politicians talk on TV,
I need a PG, for my children,
Because, their talks smell wowoed, with a luster of in-intelligible graveyard
Their mouths reek insanity; their tongues wag evil
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9.
A Patriot Without Patriotism!

And at last,
You carried your luggage, waited for the cricked train
And just like that, you disappeared
So, when you came back
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10.
Haunted Tentacles

Over these valleys and our small mountains, the bewitched tentacles are hovering,
Spreading and spitting its dark poisonous wisdom over this land,
Its dark hearts clamping evil in our souls, and hatred to ourselves
The loathsome neighborliness and structural decay
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