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Lagos Roofs<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The roofs of Lagos<\/p>\n Technicolor<\/p>\n Bits of sticks, stones, nylon<\/p>\n Worn out sandals<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bits of teeth,<\/p>\n Eczema, scarifications of rain and sun<\/p>\n The insignia of the owner<\/p>\n Proud of his garrisoned house<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Antenna and plates<\/p>\n Dishes out the illusion of paradise<\/p>\n And tankers of self government<\/p>\n Watered down from the ground<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No trees, some greens choking<\/p>\n At the cancer of gas<\/p>\n Skyscrapers and legends side by side<\/p>\n In Ebutte-Metta<\/p>\n <\/p>\n II<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> Towelled by a long line of frying clothes<\/p>\n Poles and lines like Mast and\u00a0 Masthead<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No birds<\/p>\n Just the dim awakening<\/p>\n Of generators \u2028And<\/p>\n the flubustering<\/p>\n loneliness<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lagos is a stadia<\/p>\n of hustle \u2028Gladiators die everyday<\/p>\n And the air is full of blood<\/p>\n And\u00a0 phlegm<\/p>\n Beer parlours and music<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Women of the night dance<\/p>\n On the balcony<\/p>\n Flashing half their breasts<\/p>\n While the roof rumbles<\/p>\n with a feast of rats<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rats<\/p>\n Landlords<\/p>\n Mechanics, vulcanizers and bus conductors<\/p>\n Corporate personnel \u2028In the company of one roof<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Petrol stations<\/p>\n Tarpaulins<\/p>\n And uncompleted buildings<\/p>\n In a celestial partnership<\/p>\n The road to God is short<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Femi Morgan<\/strong> is the co-curator of Artmosphere,<\/em> a leading Arts and Culture event in Nigeria and a co-publisher at WriteHouse Collective. He is a co-recipient of the 234Next Fashion Copy Prize and was longlisted for the BN Poetry Prize in 2015. Morgan is a co-publisher of WriteHouse Collective. Meet Morgan @fairchild09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lagos Roofs The roofs of Lagos Technicolor Bits of sticks, stones, nylon Worn out sandals Bits of teeth, Eczema, scarifications of rain and sun The insignia of the owner Proud of his garrisoned house Antenna and plates Dishes out the illusion of paradise And tankers of self government Watered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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