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LAMENTATIONS OF A WANDERER – Victor Enite Abu

PART I
I was warned not
To wander too far
To the places where
The flesh is ripped open to reveal our skeletons

PART II
Could I have known that in the dark corners of a building
In the chaos of music and swinging hips
In the cloud of smoke and streams of liquor
I’d find meaning

PART III
At the bottom of each drop of liquor
In the last whiff of smoke
And the warmth of a maiden
I’d find the emptiness I tried to escape from.

Victor Enite Abu resides in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. He is a graduate of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, where he studied Horticulture. He is a drama minister and a writer. 

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