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On Lagos Lagoon


05.13.17 Posted in today's words by

Thomas Locicero’s most recent poem to appear here was “Poet/Tree” (April 2017)

On Lagos Lagoon
By Thomas Locicero

Eyeing the labyrinth of stilt houses
on Lagos Lagoon in the Makoko
slum district of Nigeria, a man from
America, there to build wells for the poor,
buys a Coke from a woman in a canoe.



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