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C'mon folks, every gud show goes on commercial break. So cut the dog seller some slack. I mean, where better to put a dog sales ad than on a dog story page by Nairaland pen celeb, Orikinla?

I don't know how appropriate this topic I'm posting right here is, but I'm desperately trying to reconnect with Sisikill & Mactao who influenced me greatly here in the Literature section of Nairaland. I'd give anything to hear from them again. They can add me up on y!messenger or facebook through: Kool_like_water@yahoo.com

@ Orikinla, haviñg this many issues with the ladies neva helps any career, much less one that'z channeld 2ward celebrity status. I suggest u quit it with the back & forths alreadi.

@ Ayomorroco, nice sarcasms u got comiñg. I c ur sense of humor - situation regardless

@ Ripshin, yea you're right on the expert thiñg. I observd some here are merely quotiñg their GMATs.

On apostrophe, I know that any noun that ends in an 's' carries an apostrophe in its possessive form and could also carry another 's' after the apostrophe - it's the writer's choice. What changes is the pronunciation.

Hmmm, Interestiñg

Now I know I'm not alone in the strañgle-an-ill-mannered-kid urge. If I shud start, it'll be with my cousin's stupid stubborn son.

Matter of fact, it's their parentz I get the most urge 2 suya-grill with my eyez 4 the [un-]trainiñg they dole out to this generation I'm unfortunate 2 share time with [, a generation Michael Jackson died in].

Great penniñg, Intrepid. Tight

, by now I have enuff añga in me 2 fuel a federal inferno, but I still keep it local, [or is it locco?]

Porez on my handz and feet and forehead are voiciñg, pukiñg sweat beads in solidariti 2 my mind's temperament. I really shudn't have picked up a pen to write, coz instead of iñk findiñg paper, the tip found me a payback. That's how u lost your [own] left eye

@ Orikinla,
I'm still hoping I could be a contributing writer to Supple magazine. I'll be in not for the money.I just want this 2 get off my block.

Isu Ude (Kicking Un-Knowledge)

The church borrowed the condoms
Ala eloo ya!

The earth climaxed ere we were born
But we still squirm in the gooey sperm

Creation grew weak
Dwarfs fill the earth
Mmm,

Justice had foresight
She found a blindfold early

Wisdom waits to be sought for
Her towers have turned tomb stones

The libraries stay quiet
The students stay away
Mmm,

"The rich also cry"
Tears must now wear price tags

"The man died"
Feminists may now rejoice

"It's good to be good"
Haha! Now, that was good.

Love is often accidental
The hospitals are always full

Friendship is as intoxicating as wine
Teetotallers are not missing much
Mmm

The globe has sworn perpetual recession
All man must moonwalk

Arise O compatriots!
PDP has need of the seats

It's complicated as my country
It's simple as my countrymen

I can't stand our fathers
We only see eye to eye when I look in the mirror
Hmm,

We saved for the rainy day
Now we cannot even go out to spend our savings

The nimbus always lowers on us, bulging with rain
Little wonder we've got our heads in the clouds

When the midwives pinched the newborn 9ja
they meant "Any last words?"


On November 3, 2009
@ some point in (the eternal distance) between jobs.


*Isu Ude - Moaning; Groaning; Sighing; Lamentations
*Ala eloo ya - (Igbo) the earth swallowed her (it).

I'd love to be your first buyer. I'm planning on owning a studio soon.

Y'all don't know how I feel seeing this thread resurrected.

Sisikill, I opened a fresh thread earlier today, searching for you because there's something I would love for us to discuss. It has to do with a new work - a collaboration if the talk goes right between us. kool_like_water@yahoo.com when you want to mail me, please. Looking forward to it.

Speaking of which, MACTAO! where are you son? I'd give an arm and a leg to hear from you again. Could you mail me - kool_like_water@yahoo.com, I have something similar to discuss with you too.

Bluespice,
I saw your footprints on 'Open Mic Night' thread. 1daful of you to holla @ your old friends. Would you like to be called up on the phone sometime? You could mail me your digits.

Hey, remember me? Ok. I've got this idea I'm working on that I'd love to see become a collaboration - a story that I hope to turn into screenplay.

Would you mind mailing me on kool_like_water@yahoo.com so I can furnish you with details and hope you accept the invite? Expecting

Hey, I stay in Aba too, but I'm in Enugu more often these days.

I honestly dont know where u can get good books in Aba, but u kud try Royal Supermarket along Aba-Owerri Road. Or go to Ninland School Library and get directions from there. As for a good bookshop, i really dont know.

Where in Aba d'u stay?

@ maedan,

U ROCK!!! As he would say (especially at the 1995 MTV awards performance) "Thank you. I love you too."

I'm surprised there's no thread on Michael Jackson here. He was a lyricist and that makes him every inch relevant to literature.
Today, it is common to see people describe something or someone as being "bad" when they actually mean 'very good' or 'very skilled'. Michael may not have been the originator of that usage, but he made it popular.

I'll go right on to my tribute anyway, but I resign its fate - my post, that is - to the discretion of the moderator.

You Live, Michael

You are black, You are white
You are Jack, You are Jill
You are BAD! You are Dangerous
You are the highest wrung, the intro rite
of every great perfomance, every blooming dance skill.

Thankyou for making bards of us
We excitedly tell what u have shown us.

We love you! (We don't)
U're d best! (U're a jest)
This phantasmagoria of your life
bears frail fragments of the possibility
that you are human.

Sustained supernovas happen but once
hence you happened.

You are kind, a lot of kids tell
You are creepy, a few kids did yell.
You are 1 of a kind. I tell
Lixy tells too
And Oprah, and Larry King and Obama and Ush
Everybody tells.

You live everytime we moonwalk
everytime we break or kick in a dance
everytime we give to charity
You live.
Wherever there's make-up or makeover
You live
You live

Even when we're long gone, you still will
L I V E

So the name at the bottom of the write up, that's urs?