s. Asamoah
A septuagenarian once said
“Be sheep and not spectators”
They teach sheep pale magic is more magical than The dark arts.
In a true story;
Two sorcerers; one like them, the other pale, die
Yet Boasiako receives NO hallelujah , nor book deal
Nor likes , nor follows.
In this story, they teach sheep;
The goodness of austere pale men , iron collars
And how to be sheepish of our own wool.
The shepherd trots his sceptre, or wooden arm,
Or to the lamb— murder weapon
pilgrimed with the silence of the sheep
On this Animal farm where lambs learn [to graze] under trees.
Spare the lamb spoil the meat.
In this story,
“Silence is golden”
more golden than a Gold Coast.
In this story,
Ananse’s Coast will teach you white by hiding black,
explain blue by showing you red.
At the slaughter , The examiner:
Baa baa black sheep
have you any wool?
Sheep chew , and pour:
Yes sir, Master, three bags full
One for the Wester
One for the States
One for the little Reds who live down the ‘A’.
s. Asamoah writes from Accra-Ghana, his poems have been published by Praxis online Magazine, Tampered Press Magazine, The Writers and Readers Network – Ghana’s The GBV Project and has poems in the debut issues of Gumbo Press Magazine due February 2020.