You might take this road
Or that one, or this bridge
Or that ridge, you might take
The tarred one, or the untarred,
The broken one, or the virgin,
You might forge the fest or
Break the fast, feel
The rhythm, flip the rhymes
Plough slow,
Plunge slapdash
Withal you be up the same road
The lime of the loam, the
Shovel damn over your head—Game over!
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About the Poet
Victor Damilola Garuba is a short story writer and poet. He was long-listed in 2013 for the Ghana Poetry Prize. In 2023, he won the IRHAF’s Steve Biko Prize for the best short story on human rights in Africa. His works appear in Brittle Paper, African Writer, and the Writers Space Africa (WSA) magazine.