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Two Poems

by Femi Morgan

 

FOR BEER NEVER NAGS

 

Sweat and groan;

To my concubine, go I

The joy of friendship

Lasts in the mixture of known and unknown

 

She cools my heart

‘my dear barley bottle’

She smiles and heart

Vanishes for warmth.

 

Fair and fat

Her sister who serves me

Beauty bleached best described

But never my concubine

Drawn from nature’s spine

Spin into mine

 

For beer never nags

 

IMG_0383Her round lips wait

For my kiss and my words

Wants my tongue in her round hole

Patience that gladdens my heart

Laughter coursed my mouth

 

She’s my saviour

My lover, as long as I want

When I don’t have money she chills

Her full breast responds, gasp at every touch…

 

Her pregnancy never worries me

Still opened, a mall of my delight

‘my dear ,never, your bikini hides nothing but your hides open;

barley hides

For beer never nags

 

Discourse becomes disco or discuss

Headaches gone

Blues and fairy tales with mature

Tint.

 

She sits on my lap

Bearing her breast to my sensuous lips

To my tender touch without:

‘WHEN, HOW, SHOULD YOU, WHY,

WHO, YEH, COME AND SEE,

WHERE, WERE YOU. WHAT HAPPENED’

For beer never nags.

 

Silence needed to repent

And bluntly spit that truth on my shirt

To stagger in a circling world

To press my thigh on her

Mutually groaning

She pops, I suck.

 

Whiteness!

Tomorrow is trouble again

Wife means Potiphar’s wipe

Politics of a scheming type

 

Let my eyes be shut

From risky love

Let me be tired of touching

The one at home.

 

The frying pan bangs today

The new car is overheating

The cough originates from kitchen

The television has none of my vision

The cup is the shape of cunt

The heart is divorced while the rest distorts

The salary murdered at arrival

The attention is complained about

The sex is not hot like frying plantain

For beer never nags.

 

Gulder in my gall

Guinness raises the sperm in my penis

Satzenbraw lends me no brawl

Harp, sweet words, musical from harp

‘Burukutu’ drums the lyric of my fathers

‘pleasant friend’

‘Pleasant’

For beer never nags

 

Life is sweet with you my little ‘punanny’

There are no family problems

After the daily dowry (CHEAP AS HELL)

Nothing more

For Beer never nags.

 

OLD TOGETHER

 

I am an angry, bad mouth felon

But she loves me

She is a rusted anchor of complaints

But I love her, more than I love anything

 

I am the late comer and the slight eater

As if the soup is not sweet

She is the one who refuses me on that lofty place

But I love her and she loves me.

 

I am the ruffian, fussing here and there for things not missing

She is the silence when silence is the need

I am the butt of her jokes when the fuss is over

When lost is found and scattered becomes arranged.

I love her though I do not tell her, she knows

She loves me though she is too old to call me stupid names like ‘darling’

 

Our album is full as our cups are

Our children have gone away and we are children again

Longing for companionship not as rough as it began

 

It will soon be over

How soon we do not know

But it will be that of full smiles of old honeymoon

Transcending in a compass of time

 

We are old, old together.

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Femi Morgan works with Artmosphere, and writes from Lagos.