- Tomi Adegbayibi / Black Bird
Added 2025-03-08 08:15:30 +0000 UTCThere's a black bird. Pour the rum, the
cage won't hold. We've tipped centre
continent on tongues. Stutter, conditions
of nerves. We are saying bye bye, sugbon
me ti mo itumo dudu ninu wa. Clip the
wings of mercury. Calcify the song of she
in burnt ethanol. Everything is spilling.
Play this game. No bird at all. Sing with
me... Bye bye black.... cold answers no.
A Retrograde is moving inside spines bent.
Spy me this. Arch me this. Come me this.
Censored purge. We like the black bird,
we like the Orishas, we like the alphabet
with no c. Look after this. Hold your
schizophrenic palms. Black bird I do not
yet know the reason for the black inside
us. They press one another in the
absence of light. Riddle me this. Come me
this. Arousal is mercury. The moon's
continent is burning. The black bird says
it's a girl. The man has kept her in a room.
Night cannot leave. This is paralysed. The
air has caught dementia. But on her bed
black veins are pouring. Sing me this.
Comatose in bliss. Spiced Liquorice. He's
given her sweets. Black bird says she's on
the wrong side of the hemisphere. Sungo
has sent thunder to your cage. Bye bye
black bird have you any ... wings are legs
drip dripping.
