By Chaka Sichangi (The Great Elephant) I wish upon a star… I wish its burning gases would make this death quick/ I’ve been sinking in sand quick/ Redemption/ I’ve been thinking she’ll come quick/ In the alternative I find my self screaming for this demise to come quick/ 37 years on I echo Meja Mwangi…’Kill! [...]
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By Wanjiku Mwaurah ‘Shred it’ She shakes it Turns around and runs Too scared of facing it
By Wanjeri Gakuru Some words refuse to leave my lips, They stand there in the hollow of my mouth, a mute forest of ascenders and descenders quarantined behind a wall of teeth, They soon learn how to meekly excuse the traffic of Other words marked appropriate for conversation and social navigation.
The white in his eye. That fixed blank and blind stare… Just a wink and a movement in his chest The only proof that he is alive I went to see him in the hospital Appearance, so alien I had to recognize him by the nametag His face, shriveled like a burnt plastic His bones [...]
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