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CASE OVER by Chika Victor Onyenezi

The judge familiarity overcast,

Sober case of mercy

I left the last card to turn

Two tears drop is all I got left

“Case adjourned”

Was all he could say?

With his mustache bushy mouth.

“12 May 2004”

The day I cast the dice

Rotation of seeds of crime

Maybe four three two years in jail

I think I know the bars of late

Strong iron gates of gaol

I hope to be there someday

For me case over

POLICE AVENUE

16mm mortar pounding

Striking all nook and crannies

Of civilian life

Stripping them naked of their right

Burnt on mount authority

By men in black

Parading black paint truth

As a priest pulpit truth

Motherland is bare

The taskforce men

Whipping naira off our palms

Singing lullaby on our potholes

Our rights are indeed dead

Buried along Police Avenue.