an urban contradiction<\/p>\n
of the sane and insane<\/p>\n
coexisting in an asylum<\/p>\n
called city by name<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
of a concatenation of smells<\/p>\n
expensive perfumes fighting sosorobia\u00b9<\/em><\/p>\n body odor hiding beneath<\/p>\n the aroma from mamaput\u00b9\u00b2<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n factories belching pollution<\/p>\n competing with paraga\u00b3-<\/em>drinking drunkards-<\/p>\n staggering is the odor that emanates<\/p>\n from the gutters and no one bothers<\/p>\n Who send you?<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n this is my Lagos-<\/p>\n Africa’s heartbeat and heartthrob<\/p>\n swagger of a kind born<\/p>\n and bred on the streets.<\/p>\n sidewalks steeped in sex and sleaze<\/p>\n Waka pass\u2074<\/em> if you don’t know the way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n skyscrapers straining against one another<\/p>\n beside mud dwellings looking for a fight<\/p>\n nothing’s new, this is Lagos<\/p>\n <\/p>\n yellow ‘danfo’ buses so ubiquitous<\/p>\n and their conductors with yellowing teeth<\/p>\n armed with arsenals of cuss words<\/p>\n and little education<\/p>\n <\/p>\n here’s where affluence sleeps with penury,<\/p>\n wake up the next day and table’s turned<\/p>\n there’s no line dividing us-<\/p>\n we’re Lagos and Lagos is us<\/p>\n This is Lagos.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00b9cheap locally made body spray<\/p>\n \u00b2streetside eatery usually selling cheap foods and low on hygiene<\/p>\n \u00b3locally made gin<\/p>\n \u2074another phrase for ‘just move on or out of the way’<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" an urban contradiction of the sane and insane coexisting in an asylum called city by name of a concatenation of smells expensive perfumes fighting sosorobia\u00b9 body odor hiding beneath the aroma from mamaput\u00b9\u00b2 factories belching pollution competing with paraga\u00b3-drinking drunkards- staggering is the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124159,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120832\/revisions\/124159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}