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Written Poem: The Governance Of Blocks & Bricks – K.Asare-Bediako

The Governance Of Blocks & Bricks

Today opens another voice orchestrating in a frustrated auditorium

filled with the succulent stench of bricks & blocks.

 

They say the bricks support the blocks to follow a nation known of its violence as a degree

Its crisis as a masters

& its lies as the PHD of all standards.

 

Can you name a nation where lie in an aesthetic Flagstaff house with deteriorated staff of all standards?

They say it is phenomenal. It is.

It is phenomenal because we establish

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hardship on rocks—bricks do not support blocks anymore for a concrete wall,

Instead, blocks are laid on bricks—stampeding over their efforts

to cover the firmness of bricks.

 

They say poverty does not know the aged & like death, you propel a shift

for it to demolish your space—

death comes & go

& returns like the wind

 

They render surviving from their thirsty pocket/a dried habitat/ confronted with packed grief

& a crew of defaced papers which tears itself into pieces within

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a second look. Here I am, tweeting & tweeting the names of the gracious-heartless blocks

who represent the leader that have lost his tomorrow,

future got impeded & curtailed in the blood of brick citizens,

 

Lest they tell their own truth, hence no one blames the incumbent party.

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Poet Nazir is a writer and an editor here on ThePoetsHub. Outside this space, he works as a poet, screenwriter, author, relationship adviser and a reader. He is also the founder & lead director of PNSP Studios, a film production firm.

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