{"id":9955,"date":"2020-07-28T01:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T01:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2020-07-28T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T01:37:12","slug":"turing-test-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/to-the-awkward-adolescent-nigerian-male","title":{"rendered":"To The Awkward Adolescent Nigerian Male"},"content":{"rendered":"

To The Awkward Adolescent Nigerian Male<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Praise your magnificent dark skin glory<\/p>\n

Praise your magnificent fair skin glory<\/p>\n

Praise your can\u2019t fit into last year\u2019s shirts glory<\/p>\n

Praise your unwanted erections at church service glory<\/p>\n

Praise your everything to impress the girl who doesn\u2019t want you glory<\/p>\n

Praise your everything to impress your boys glory<\/p>\n

Praise your touch yourself if no one will touch you glory<\/p>\n

Praise your cold sweat maroon nightmares glory<\/p>\n

Praise your click-boom<\/em> of adrenalin rush glory<\/p>\n

Praise your unhappy but fuck that glory<\/p>\n

Praise your house chores you hate doing glory<\/p>\n

Praise your middle of the night explosions early morning stickiness glory<\/p>\n

Praise your standing through the Burna Boy concert and wishing you had not come glory<\/p>\n

Praise your soft but not too soft glory<\/p>\n

Praise your hard but not too hard glory<\/p>\n

Praise your awkward adolescent Nigerian male glory<\/p>\n

For you are the most glorious discovery there ever was<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Haze<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The haze sometimes shapeshifts into colours<\/p>\n

Blue, red and a dozen others<\/p>\n

I try to yell at the women hosting tea parties in my living room<\/p>\n

Please leave, I do not want you here<\/em><\/p>\n

But my speech becomes a gargle of needles<\/p>\n

And the women, now transformed into harpies, cackle at my weakness<\/p>\n