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LAGOS-BADAGRY ROAD
Lagos-Badagry Road;
Yes, from Alakija to Iyana Iba;
Ha, home of confusion.
What have we woken to?
Hell suddenly let lose in the cold
Where morning dew dries
In the fire of a billion buzzing bees.
An ocean of fretting fire
Aglow with a hotchpotch
Of a billion burning eyes:
Eyes that blaze through the haze
Of a million hooting elephants
Poised to trample a million prancing monkeys
On a canvas of buzzing bees,
And we, the unfortunate spectators
Cringe to save our souls from the
Collective terror of drunken monsters.
Yet everyone remains where they are.
And there is no where to go.
Elephants, monkeys and bees are trapped.
This is a road that leads to no-where.
The trucks blame the commercial buses,
The commercial buses blame the commercial bikers,
The commercial bikers blame the pedestrians,
The pedestrians blame the road construction contractor,
The road construction contractor blames the government,
The government blames the treasury looters,
The treasury looters blame the “system”,
The “system” blames “God's help” delayed.
Yeah, this is Lagos
And Lagos unfortunately is Nigeria.
