Distractions

On the other side of the world

closer to Nigeria than here

Peru Para blasts on the speaker one last time

the lights are lowered and the feet of casual lovers make their way home

a nest of liars turned night crawlers

pretending not to be angry that the economy of uncertainty

continues to benefit from their broken hearts

but they say nothing

like puppets without a ventriloquist

losing control

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Poem © Kehinde Winful
Image: Fernando Latorre from Pixabay (remixed)