REPUBLICAN PARASITES
In this plantain
Republic,
Human parasites
and rubbish
Are scattered
and spread everywhere
Like wild
locusts on green fields.
While we chock
in smelly vapours of rotting dirt,
These voracious
human parasites are busy sucking
Our banana
Republic to anaemic and epileptic levels.
There is no pity
in Republican business!
Our national
blood is sucked into endless parasitic intestines
As
white-agbadaed and black-coated parasitic zombies parade streets,
Preaching
country love, exhibiting latest cars, spacious mansions...
Lousily
flattering the Boss, they secretly backbite and siphon.
These parasites
sprinkle sandy dust on disappearing national cakes
And spread
political fog and clouds on eroding national hills
And press thirsty
engine saws on whithering national baobabs
And handpick all
fresh buds sprouting on quaking national fields.
Land of gory!
Land of parasites!
Thou of death
and sorrow, our only bar.
Thine demotion,
thine be hunger,
And deep
embezzlement forever more.
(Mbankolo,
February 15, 2015)
