BONDING…
II
(To Ibadan)
Dugbe the market
Articulate your quantitatives
Clark’s five-line poem
Chart your perspectives
The Wild West syndrome
Colour your invectives
A garrison-style democracy
Resonate your pejoratives
Stadia Liberty and Adamasingba
Resound your expletives
The cocoa house
Denote your prerogatives
A chain of ring roads
Accentuate your decoratives
Town-centre gridlocks
Underscore your derivatives
The wetie inferno
Streamline your purgatives
A foremost citadel of learning
Underscore your qualitatives
Its teaching hospital
Apprising your curatives
An unmarked grave
Apotheosize your imperatives
A recidivist pilgrimage
Behold your putatives…
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– (c) Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
The choice of words came between me and the poem, and I could not break through your wall. Perhaps, it’s one of your poetic experimentations. I will read your other entries
Sorry I saw this late. Each couplet in the poem is about a landmark about Ibadan viz.: Dugbe market, J P Clark’s poem, politics, stadia, cocoa house, etc.
The last two concern my daughter who died at UCH and lies in an unmarked grave in the town. I believe it makes me a putative citizen of the town.
Hope it helps you appreciate it some.