Contributor: Ajise Vincent

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I.

Not all fathers
are efficacious, Sheriff.
Don't revere all.

II.

Some are emissaries of addiction:
They are ambulatory chimneys
that sacrifice their children's tuition
to the greedy god of marijuana.

III.

Some are financiers of impropriety:
They buy then slough crevices of preteens
till marginal utility begins to have pity. Pedophilia.

IV.

Wirra! There are many
who smile illustriously, but like
pestles that flog mortars
with oscillatory vigour,
they re-create the faces
of their wives with blows.
Lo! Their wives are now new creations.

V.

The father of the boy next-door
falls in all categories, sir.


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Ajise Vincent has been through the turmoil, love and anomalies of this world. His works have been published in various literary outlets. He writes from Lagos, Nigeria.