Poem – She Climaxed (By Agbaakin O. Jeremiah)

She Climaxed

 

she starts with a song.

suddenly, a dirge

too limp with grief,

like the skies in Pompeii.

it’s killed the birds in my heart,

ships stagger like a drunk,

into the white-blush of maddened waves.

 

the earth popped open

as an old wine bursts froth;

like a hungry lioness

she opened her jaws

separating families

with her parted loamy lips.

buildings crumbled into bread crumbs

broken streets sip blood cocktail

to mourn a bleeding city.

 

but I swear:

that was not the beginning.

her own children started the orgy

and now, yet they still drill her loins:

her fossil fluid is offered

as elixir for steel, wheeled Stallions,

their self-made birds have oily mouths;

factory plants are plaintive slaves

puffing foul breath across skies

like lepers farting on sacred ground.

 

the smarter ones erect outrageously-

skyscapers, storeys multi-some

on her parts too erogenous

to survive the upset.

that’s why she quakes

along the bowels of San Andreas or Java

where miners viciously enter her all day

carting away her pearls,

till she climaxes.

 

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