Godwin Inyang

Dr Fixit (Africa's Longest Poem) Volume Seven Godwin Inyang

The new-breed soldier ants invade a radio station and broadcast their speech on the airwaves which rattles human ears everywhere. Following are excerpts from the speech -3031'Where animals are all fed, A predator may evenHobnob with the preyUntil hunger arrives. But not so among humans: A dictator would hack downHis presumed enemies asRecklessly to power he drives. To amass filthy money, The robbers don't worryThe bullets they shoot wouldHarm precious innocent lives. To possess a strip of landThat they could die and leave behindAny time, humans would kill asHe or she foolishly strives.3032'Humans everywhere keepBreeding so their offspringWould fully dominateThe earth. Great thing, isn't it?You keep mounting awesomeConcrete structures you callConcrete jungle so your offspringWould applaud your great feat. Frankly, I'd tell you to thoseOffspring if all you bequeathedAre insects, trees and animalsOnly in picture books, They'd openly wonder ifTheir beloved forbears whoPassed on mere virtual legaciesWeren't indeed bloody cro