Poem: “Eating With All The Fingers” by Niyi Osundare

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Eating With All The Fingers

You jerk up from sleep
and find us eating
you immediately want a scoop
just wait
if we started this way
would you wake up
to a single morsel?

The affairs of this life
are like people eating
some dip ten fingers
and clog their throats
their greed chokes the land
with sprawling dirt

We will raise our voices
and tell the world
we will not be watchers
of others eating

— Niyi Osundare

“Eating With All The Fingers” by Niyi Osundare is a poem of seventeen lines. It is sectioned into three stanzas.

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