Dele Meiji

I am a funny creature of the world, Laughing at my own expense - at the Naked jabs of fate in my eye. My own blood amuses me – spilt as it is Time honoured in hunting for love. ...

(dedicated to the memory of Mama Ikole – sun re lo’wo olorun) Mama had coarse palms – fingers as long as I could remember, Digging out memories, mucus and the fragments of a nail She s...

The Real Thing I am the real thing; I am the angry tormented poet, Living not in your garrets, but right here in your streets, I am the raging, burning of your dreams; against your intransigence. Seething, cooling like a block of ice, I am heavy and I am light...