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Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò

ayekooto

ambush, there's a lot facing my country
lately:
            chaotic bodies hid in the smoke screen of peace
            a train of sunflowers died in the phonemic of war
            i sickle out the blade killing all the meek animals inside me
            ​we faith in the rebellion of gunshots. 
 
i speak French now—a language i harvest from the throat
of my lover who also majors in this collective grief. 
 
je t'aime aussi, i plant a kiss on my country's forehead
in return for her robust ruins. 
 
merci beaucoup, i am grateful you spared me when
you came for mother, grandma, auntie. 
 
fait accompli, it's nice doing the business of turmoil
with you. 
 
au revoir, who is on the list today to be squeezed into
a viral obituary. 
 
s'il vous plaît, call me when home is no longer a threshold of charred bones. 
 
*ayekooto--a Yoruba phrase for parrot. 

Biography

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​Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò (he/him/his) is a Nigerian emerging writer, frontier V and an undergrad of Mass Communication. He is passionate about inequality, politics, domestic violence, and child rights. His works have appeared or forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Rough Cut Press, Poetry Column ND, Rigorous Magazine, Afreecan Read, Ice Floe Press, Inverse Journal,  Better Than Starbucks, Lumiere Review, B'K magazine, Pepper Coast Lit, Perhappened magazine, In Parentheses Art, Rulerless Magazine, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter @eniola_abdulroq
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