SNAPSONG 282
APRIL FOOL OR APRIL DREAM? I woke up today To a magical astonishment My room was strangely bright My laughter loud like a waterfall My refrigerator was humming My television
APRIL FOOL OR APRIL DREAM?
- By Niyi Osundara
I woke up today
To a magical astonishment
My room was strangely bright
My laughter loud like a waterfall
My refrigerator was humming
My television sprang into sound
My long-dead computer was ablaze
Its screen glowing like a happy sky
My juiceless phone was all astir
As it rang like a crazy bell
My neighbour was on the line
To share the joy of the magic day
Our world suddenly came alive
HURRAY TO NEPA, our Nation's tenacious leper!
A plague on mindless rulers whose greed
Has wrecked our national grid…..
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On the global front, a sudden lull
From gunboat diplomats who lust for foreign conquests
The hubris and hustle of Grand Obliterators
Who decapitate other countries with arrogant delight
Gone, the Emperor who farts in his gilded den
While the world chokes from his toxic stench
Wastelands of ruin and rubble
Of tyrants who pray and prowl for their daily bomb . . . .
To wake up on April Fool's Day
To nightmares so full of possible dreams
