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Verse: Zoom out
(Originally shared on my FB Page on 12th December, 2019.) Zoom out. Zoom outtill the tips ofyour thumb and index fingerspan three days’ journey,till rivers curve like the lifeline in your palm,seeding civilizations. Then…
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Story: Gladys
This originally appeared on misteragyeman.blogspot.com on February 17, 2017. Gladys started well. She had a real go-getter for a mother, the kind with a shelf stacked with awards and occasional appearances in the newspaper. (She was always…
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Verse: Connection
(Originally shared on my FB Page on 17th November, 2016.) Sure, I could hurt you.With song I could crush youlike a thumb upon a mothtill you crumble all to powder on the floor.But what for? Yes I could move you;With…
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Undiluted Drivel
Titles of stories I meant to write (the concepts of which, alas, are perished): 1. With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemas? 2. My Homework Ate My Dog. 3. … (There was a multitude, but their titles…
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Verse: The Mountain Duel
Context: I tried this idea on my page. This was the only entry… I had entirely forgotten about my offer to write poems on request, then yesterday David Maja Salako wrote asking for “dragons and…
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Verse: Child, Book, Pen
There with the child, and his book, and his pen, The magic, it whispers and beckons and then Laughingly leads into darkness and lustre. And when the caravan finally returns, The child is…
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Story: The Fruit of the Commute
He approached the trotro at a brisk walk, at the pace of a man who knows he is at least thirty minutes late and nothing can save him. He fairly jumped into the bus. As…
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Swelter: To Be Uncomfortably Hot
How about that sun, eh? It turns out I have sweat glands. It’s always nice to meet new people, I say. But I wish I could have made their acquaintance under different conditions. 2015 is likely to be…
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Living the Lie
Warning: this is a pseudo-listicle. Recently I’ve been reading titanic writing from GQ, the NY and LA Times, Esquire, Wired; learning big new words like metastasize and scrofulous and pulchritudinous— guess which one means…