The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba

Author:Tolu Oloruntoba
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palimpsest Press
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ayò is our two-lane mancala:

remove seeds, count seeds, plant,

capture children of a Black Atlantic.

We are the boarding pass pre-break:

ambitious / amphibious on either side,

manacled to exile,

the random rulership of chance and

the tartan memory of chain-link fences,

our office coffeepot black

with offshore labor in the morning.

If Ayọ is joy, then we wish:

Ayọ á kárí, that the brownthumb of travel

be unable to wilt us;

for the roulette of passport control

to dispense enough joy

into alm-bowl hands,

ballast to ford the oaths

they put all we wanted behind.

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