Atukwei Okai: Kperterkple Serenade (excerpt)
III
make room in your inn for me –
I know:
when karl marx grabbed his bibliography
and ballpen and pocketed his toothbrush
and his shaving stick
he went and bought a ticket to london
when ghandi girded his loin cloth, it
was london he had in mind.
when lenin fled his beloved motherland
his final haven-crashpad was london.
but america
your address book too has memories that yield
the names
of von braun and charles dickens and
marcus garvey and amerigo vespucci and
christopher columbus who boarded the wrong bus
and maxim gorky and mayakovsky and uncle
einstein and mr. carnegie and rockefeller
even your ports
recalling
report how
the mayflower moved in to deflower at night
the virgin land
of the red indians –
jesus christ it seems and judas did not make it
america
you are a funny girl…
everybody dreams of kissing you
the last line is classic
he is not the best?! man the man is GOOD!!
beautiful
i am proud of this man. he is an inspiration to the youth. i wish him all the best in life.
yes man, you are understood in your in your dress and your speech, a true african genius
i like your poem by the way i am ghanaian
Your poems inspires all the time
what a great piece….this man is really an icon