Friday 2 December 2011

Voodoo People

Lampudesa

Looks
out to
Sea

And shakes
His head

The sea is a

Monster-of -Energy

As if Nago Shango unleashed
The Petro from their watery Graves

Or Poseidon
Unleashed the
Kracken

Or the Calm
before a
devastating
Tsunami

Reluctantly
He knows what to do

And walks slowly back
Across the
Sinking sands
To his
Village

He calls a gathering of the
Elders

In the municipal
Timber
Hut

They agree and
Gather

400
of
There
Own

Virgins

Boys
Men

Women
Girls

Babies

Between the
Ages

22-44

400

In total

Are ripped screaming from their
Beds
By their
Neighbours and Friends

The Nigerian Women
Remain on the
Sands

Provoking magic
With

Awagawe

Their Magic

This Dancing
 Evokes
The gaze
Of
GanGan

And whilst
There
Little Boats
Compete with the
Waves

Prayers and Chanting
Aboard can be heared
Fading slowly away

The devil has been cast-out

And the waves plateu
In response

GanGan
Seems
Appeased

And the villagers
Hed back to there village
To
Mourn




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