Monday, February 27, 2017

Ex-Husband ( A Poem About Marriage and Divorce)



Gambian author, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe cooked in Abuja, Nigeria, during the 2020 PenPen Africa Writers Residency organized by the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT) and sponsored by the European Union.


Divorce is a common phenomenon in Africa, with immediate and long-term consequences. Divorce rates among young people have risen in South Africa, which has one of the highest rates in the world. What causes divorce in Africa?


Infidelity, Adultery, more commonly known as “cheating”, is on top of the list of reasons for divorce in South Africa and other African countries. In this poem, famous Gambian author, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe makes an x-ray of marriage and divorce in a very poetic and literary perspective. 


The following are the countries with the most annual divorces according to the United Nations in 2009. (source, Wikipedia). 


CountryDivorces
 China1,893,000
 United States1,106,670
 Russia685,910
 Japan257,475
 Germany190,928

 

 






Messing with my x-husband

Turning his x and the x in him y

Then, he asked why.

Why?

Why must you be xy?

I said relax, read lip text



What next?

Balling in my air-max

Exits or exit; ex-merit

Yell at my suitcases

Shoot you with my gun like a gendarmerie

Tired of hearing appellate cases in my court of inquiry

Query, buckle knobkerrie



Now Mary, merry like a merry-berry

After you merry, you can then quit Katy

Get that story; you erased my history

Left me in misery, eating pain-raspberry

Stain in brain surgery got a grey-hair pastry

All for you, you went peltry

Had a bad shoot of an exemplary




I bore you three splendid children

Why hen me with another chicken?

Is this the love from the beginning?

I wept all my eyes in your storey-building

Should I not have mercy?

I’d be dashing off your state of celibacy

Try after that painting, the venom of your sucks deadly

Remnants of your love haven't been aptly




Rusted my heart lug jerkins

Chew the bone of my rabbit

After done, yell ribbit

And rib the beat, get a defeat

I’ll not, don’t lick my feet, enjoy your new goat

Open my zip, get the shit in it

Book a flight ticket, open up your mouth jacket

Better fly a big rocket; you emptied my breast’s pockets

When my parents kicked the bucket

You opened up your trousers' socket

Play ball won Nugget and got awards for seem dockets

I got naked, my breast mark scarily masked



Sit and wait, be my exhibit

Nipple the skit, tool-kit a kit, and queue in it

I said I’m a woman of a zoo, a zoo mother

I'm frustrated with your bitter-sweet cake-butter

Kept you in my cage, you turned a new page

Married another new mate

You broke my bay, made my June May

Is over, I’m martyrdom in my harm rays.


 

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