InvestMESS

They rode on Glitches,

Stole in Batches,

The many fishes

Of the River of Milk and M(h)onies.

A certain Dr. Luck

Invested few token pennies,

A "tintini" one billion of our national currency

On mere kitchen utensils

What an InvestMESS!

Over 200 Beauties

Sent as Tourists to Wizards and Witches

In Northern Borno Bushes

A journey of horrible near-misses!

They spoke and fickled,

Helmets in cycles,

Then Hell-scent for noses,

Hunger-oats as pastries,

The returns for sweat-scented skins,

Who stick thumbs on thick ink without rethink.

Oh Where is Mrs. Nemesis,

Or Mr. Posterity from the genesis?

Or Madam Justice; all seem pierced to pieces

As PoliTRICKcians and LegisLOOTERS squander currencies

Injecting the emotions of nationals with hurting "acriMOANINGS"

But... all seem stories for the gods and goddesses,

As profiting Prophets and Prophetesses pointedly prophetizes

A shoeless and clueless Preacher of 'stenched' air

The consensus Emeritus Sailor for this tower of Milk and M(h)onies.

Even as scores of pupils await Death visits,

With their peers blown to pieces,

The returns on hard-earned pennies

Presented to perfectly poverty-painted parents

What an InvestMESS!

Hmm..

Let Nigerians without penitence, but with dumb thumbs for second chances,

Dance the tune of loud silences,

Played on gnashing teeth and nail biting strings,

With plenty of hopeful hopelessness,

Welcome waiting, RAGING ‘free doom’ in sevens and sixes!

Or

Halt these SINators with sin-nature as signatures,

Tease those hoodlums to grace their fund bearers with bomb letters.

The teeming masses bask in fun era at their funeral masses.

The returns for our investments, NOT this InvestMESS…

The land again flow with milk and honey,

Breathe the breath of fresh air, NOT this STENCHED air;

As we welcome back our stolen fishes of the River of Milk and M(h)onies.

Written by: Bankole Kolawole (BankHALL)

Edited by: Bamgbade Bams Adetoyese

PS: This is a Spoken Word Piece performed at WarOfWords4 Slam Poetry Competition (November, 2014), in Lagos, Nigeria.