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To Our Dead by don88(m): 10:54am On Apr 09, 2019
TO OUR DEAD
Osobu Suuru Alexander

Adoration and glory
Just like unto the Lord
It’s a taboo
Speaking evil against our dead

Acumens, accolades
And doxologies
To our dead

Our dead spend more
Than the living
The living carry
The bills unimaginably tall

More dignified to be dead
Than living
Unpalatable to the seeds in my abode

Bitter the taste of beef
As sweet as honey
After our dead soared beyond
The world unknown

A lean figure
Kwashiorkor-bloated tummy
Marasmus-cheeks
Inside a fat casket
Adorned with metal gold

A massaging casket
Unto the dead
While alive the bed-bug mortal enemy
In the hut

More dignified to be dead
Than living
Unpalatable to the seeds in my abode

Seeds are crying
A tear not unto the dead
Gargantuan religious,
Traditional and societal rites

Fat honorarium;
In the cathedral
Blood of many dogs for the ancestors

Economic battered lean clients
Awaiting pounded yam,
Calabash of palm-wine to appease
The ancestors
Through their oesophagus- Temples

What belongs to Caesar
Must be given to Caesar!

It’s dignity to our dead
Unpalatable trepidation to the seeds
In my abode
Re: To Our Dead by don88(m): 6:25pm On Jun 15, 2019
don88:
TO OUR DEAD
Osobu Suuru Alexander

Adoration and glory
Just like unto the Lord
It’s a taboo
Speaking evil against our dead

Acumens, accolades
And doxologies
To our dead

Our dead spend more
Than the living
The living carry
The bills unimaginably tall

More dignified to be dead
Than living
Unpalatable to the seeds in my abode

Bitter the taste of beef
As sweet as honey
After our dead soared beyond
The world unknown

A lean figure
Kwashiorkor-bloated tummy
Marasmus-cheeks
Inside a fat casket
Adorned with metal gold

A massaging casket
Unto the dead
While alive the bed-bug mortal enemy
In the hut

More dignified to be dead
Than living
Unpalatable to the seeds in my abode

Seeds are crying
A tear not unto the dead
Gargantuan religious,
Traditional and societal rites

Fat honorarium;
In the cathedral
Blood of many dogs for the ancestors

Economic battered lean clients
Awaiting pounded yam,
Calabash of palm-wine to appease
The ancestors
Through their oesophagus- Temples

What belongs to Caesar
Must be given to Caesar!

It’s dignity to our dead
Unpalatable trepidation to the seeds
In my abode
Re: To Our Dead by don88(m): 10:38pm On Jul 05, 2019
don88:
TO OUR DEAD
Osobu Suuru Alexander

Adoration and glory
Just like unto the Lord
It’s a taboo
Speaking evil against our dead

Acumens, accolades
And doxologies
To our dead

Our dead spend more
Than the living
The living carry
The bills unimaginably tall

More dignified to be dead
Than living
Unpalatable to the seeds in my abode

Bitter the taste of beef
As sweet as honey
After our dead soared beyond
The world unknown

A lean figure
Kwashiorkor-bloated tummy
Marasmus-cheeks
Inside a fat casket
Adorned with metal gold

A massaging casket
Unto the dead
While alive the bed-bug mortal enemy
In the hut

More dignified to be dead
Than living
Unpalatable to the seeds in my abode

Seeds are crying
A tear not unto the dead
Gargantuan religious,
Traditional and societal rites

Fat honorarium;
In the cathedral
Blood of many dogs for the ancestors

Economic battered lean clients
Awaiting pounded yam,
Calabash of palm-wine to appease
The ancestors
Through their oesophagus- Temples

What belongs to Caesar
Must be given to Caesar!

It’s dignity to our dead
Unpalatable trepidation to the seeds
In my abode
Re: To Our Dead by don88(m): 4:49am On Jul 06, 2019
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