OGUELEGBA

Oguelegba…

The tall robust hostess of mixed temperaments

Now sanguine and later choleric

Yesterday melancholic and tomorrow phlegmatic

Large hearted and fickle minded

Ever smiling with unceasing tears of pain

Violated and yet caressing hoodlums with hot passion

You send freckles down my body

Your smiles bid me come

But your waste drives a spear into my heart

You are a heart affair

And I, like the legend, Fela exclaim

CONFUSION

Ojuelegba!

Your bowels vomit atrocities upon your innocent clients

Ojuelegba!

Your fangs and talons grip the tough black legs of moving machines

Ojuelegba

Slow motion you decree and force compliance of all that move

Ojuelegba

I salute your magnificent strength

I behold the misery of your visitors

How you consummate reversals… friends to foes and foes to friends

Behold your offspring

AYILARA

The queen of the night

She takes a bow

In sprightly florescent colors

Dress coded two inches above the subject matter

Hair toned gray brown yellow

And skin patched like the distant African leopard

Legs lifted six inches in assistance

To the natural average…