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Little Boy Selling Ice Cream (After a little boy selling ice cream at University of Ibadan gate)

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Little Boy Selling Ice Cream (After a little boy selling ice cream at University of Ibadan gate)

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019

Little boy selling ice cream
do you see them?
Those who zoom past
in tinted convoys…
Do you look at them
then smile, waving your shriveled hand
in naive excitement?
Open the cooler
see to the next customer
When you grow
you'll understand
why the elephant is so fat
even when the ant
has no flesh…

IFESINACHI NWADIKE

 

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