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In 2025, 
     everybody is talking. 
Nobody is asking, 
who're you talking to?
Who're you talking to?
     They can't help
themselves, talking,
     announcing
everything.

Man only does one thing to history,
repeat it. It's why history cannot
repeat itself. Man does.
The present bettering the past.
For you cannot batter what
you cannot better.

He paid with his life.
No he didn't.
He was killed,
he died.

Life's war
death peace.
Wait, how'd you know
that? I'm here.

Nobody woke me up,
nobody could.
Nobody wakes them up,
nobody can.
Do they know?

They hold their president
in such high regard.
No wonder they
despised the king.
King? Who?
Exactly!

In a world where man
worships man, I
could never accept,
so I... for "male and female
he created them", them.

Better is man's talk.
And it's silly.
Everything is good.
And will always be.
Best never been.
Or is yet to come?

If you could not 
     write your spouse 
a poem and got 
AI to write them one, 
     they did, 
you did not.

You can never get man.
You're either too stupid
or you find them
even more... O,
the more you look
the less you see?

Units not nations.
Collaboration
not competition.
Contributions
not control...
Fuck control!

Deliberations
not debates.
Moderators
not monarchs...
Man, who woke
you up?

Two decafs does not
one cup coffee equal.
Know what is
in thy cup.

They can only regret
when they cannot
help but do so
for when they can,
busy living, which,
too, only a while.

Democracy, demagogcracy?
It takes election
to make one but
let the people choose that
you may know
what they want.

They want their governor
wearing khakis and boots,
and a whip. No, they don't
wanna be disciplined,
ordered, not order, they
wanna be flogged
to function.

He will be installed,
then killed -
they neither want Russia
nor Korea the North
and South can
never mix.

Understand humbly -
we may never fully.
Wait without whining -
you always will.

Avoid the academy.
Look for a lyceum,
a lyceum, or
make one.

I've learned that
to get the powerful
to talk, you got to
respect them.
Speak respectfully,
just happens to be
the best way to
disrespect them.
Far from their ire
when they fire.

Nigeria na im beans --
it's what the weevils
leave over.
Feed the weevils,
let the beans be!

Who told you they love freedom?
They want a God they can
see, feel, and when
he dies (with his prick),
They always find another
(with a prick).

Go on with one Nigeria
they sang that they
may be spared of
Gowon's Gun,
only to sing it again,
one last time, before it
killed 'em all.

Only two ways to gain
your freedom from man -
1. never need it
2. never need it
again. #2 will always wish
for #1 and 1 may
never know.

There used to be humanity.
(Seriously? Ever?)
Then God made man, and
the rest is his-
mannity!

You are exactly who
you are when
no one's watching.
Who's watching?
Who cares?
Exactly!

Everyone can dig
and does dig but
their own grave.

I believe there's God. 
Haven't seen him, though. 
Or heard him. But, I've 
     seen and heard
WF. Kumuyi!

Empire is only as big as
it's crown,
     it's government house, 
     it's capital city. 
Let the fallen tell you 
how tiny Rome was.

Standardization does
not need a nation;
nations, people, peoples,
a market, markets,
the free market; for
when the market is free,
it'll tell you what to do.

Mom, when're you dying?
Don't I have to be king?
Really? Wishing your
mom dead? Why?
Didn't you ask dad that?
Well, he's dead now.

Kill me first and
let my dead body
wave your stupid
flag. Wait, was
that I? Ask.

Do nothing
without knowing why
you do it, and
when you do, do
because or despite.
Then again,
why?

National-
ism is the bully.
They saw it,
good, we love them
just like
that.

Why are they poor?
Why not, isn't it written 
They'll always be 
     with you?
You who? 
What happened to the lands
     owned by who
can only own them, forever?
So their poverty is the will
of the people,
     what they
will they will have, forever.

Free market is free
market, not capital-
ism. The peoples
agreed on the money
but chose not
to print it. 
They went back
to their crops. 

This Africa goes to Europe
to be freed from
this other Africa...
This Africa sef!

Likes not desires.
Desires not customs.
Customs not cultures.
Cultures not traditions.
Traditions not superstitions.
Superstitions not societies.
Societies not nations.
Damn, nations
not stupidity.

Food used to be free.
Then man came.
Food became freer.
You just have to
buy it.

The (school) bully
is the parent.
Yes, you can add s
to that. But never
amen to that
Cain had to kill
someone and
something must kill
a man.

Shoulders of giants
loving to forget
where they stand
and to move is
earth's loving to do.

If you can't share it
you can bear it
until no more,
not more. 

What do kings do?
Kill kings, none kings
stay king, then
killed by kings,
none kings,
cancer. 

Order did not make
sense to them so
God gave them
Nigeria.

Murdering psychopaths
control freaks they'll
call the Great.
Why? Why not?
Aren't they all man?
Male and female
he created them.

Government was
created for the wealthy
and to pay your taxes
is to be poor.

You can't own a plant
you can only
take care of them.
You can't own animal
you can only
take care of them.
What about man?
O, ask King George of
the America.

Identity is war,
to identify to die,
to will to kill,
because,
who told you
you were
naked? Indeed.

When a father
(with a prick)
names their son
(with a prick)
Solomon,

what part of
(that other prick)
do they want
them to be?

Your answer
to yourself.

I died my truth, unquote.
Dunno that I lived
it, but this is on
record, I hope.

If you jiggle long enough,
the pan large enough
     round enough, 
all them enough,
all peppers will line up
     black or white, 
as long as they’re called 
peppercorns—
they all 
make room for each other, 
all of them
do.

"Design and Quality
IKEA of Sweden
Made in Thailand."
Where Thailand is...
not (in) Europe!
I wrote this piece
in the year of
our Lord
2024.

Since I'm neither he/him
nor she/her I must be
they/them, right?
What happened
to it/it? It/It?
Yes, it/it.

Owning. 
Bartering. 
Minting. 

We never needed it.
Then we made it.
Now we cannot do 
     without it.

Greed is at
     the end of
all good intentions—
     you can get there
     fast, if
you want.

The tolerance of
     man
is the root of all
     evil.

To pretend is
     to live—to die
survive.

History is right
     about one thing—
     to be right
never works.
It sure seems to
     though.

What my skull's hiding
is indeed ugly, massive...
(How'd you know that?)
(Why'd I have a skull?)
I'd rather not
see it!

You're either a
good person
or a
good politician.
Never both.
Never neither.

If Europe is right about Africa
what a stupid idea man is.
If Africa is right about Europe
what a stupid idea man is.

Canada (you know the one)
was built by angels
(you know the ones).
No wonder every Nigerian
wants to move
there!

I believe in Jesus -
He walked the earth.
He even died for my sin.
Dunno what other God
you talking about.

Christians can't believe
what they cannot see,
who or what they
cannot see.

What pains more is
not what you can't control, is
what you wish
you could.

They must have a president.
Man, usually with penis,
as they can't do without an
ass to lick, at least one
big ass to lick. 

Don't suppress the symptoms.
Repress the cause.
Don't feel better because
you feel better.
You think you’re better.
Feel better because
you are better, be
Better.

Salt is killing the brain
of the tongue, but
none the food would
taste better without
more, more
of it. 

They want to be random and
     reap order as reward.
Isn't that why they evolved
from the apes?
Wait, where are they going?

Why learn history if
all you can do
with it is learn
from history?
Why not do the history
or dump it?
Why not both?

Distance is warfare.
May this river be
between us, but
never come
between us.

If who calls the shot
was first to get shot
no one would get shot.
O, except one,
yeah, that one.

Listen, if
you disobey -
I'll be fired,
I know -
Actually, you
will be fired.

Japheth has dragged
Shem and Ham into the war,
their wars, world,
these bloody sons of Noah,
the latter for the former,
to fight, to perish,
for it is written...

You will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.
Then you will know the law
and be trapped
in the state.

There's only two good
people out of earth -
those dead and
those yet to be
caught.

Some among them, I hear
called it irresponsible use -
the bomb, you know the one.

What I did not hear them
ask is why was it built, no,
why was it even conceived?

Wait, wait, I know, I know,...
It's Japheth again, sons of
Japheth and a 120 years.

If you can see them
you cannot be them,
the powers that be.
You see?

Copy now,
cut later.

Then
what?

Had a poem in mind
but forgot to write
it. It was
beautiful!

May truth set you free,
and law trap you
in the state.

P in profit
is not principles.
(Like part of it.)
It's the price you pay
to have it, since
you cannot eat
your cake and
have it.

Leave am like that, dem
go manage am.

If I stab you in the chest
and you die, would you
know I did? Would you
feel the pain?

If a tree falls somewhere
and you're not around there,
did it make a sound?
Did you hear it?

Don't tell me how to live.
Show me how not to die.
Then I shall hear you
while I live, even if
you would die - one
for me, for you.

Some men are incredibly
lucky they die never
knowing
they were.

Better be necessary
or be evil, not both.
And if you could choose
go with the evil

for there's good excuse
with the latter than
the both, the
necessary evil.

Being Trump is easy.
Staying Trump
not so much.

It's the difference between
the Satan and the ones
for them.

If you know what is wrong
with everyone else
you don't know
what is wrong with you.

If you can fix everyone else
you can fix yourself well,
into rot.

The real economy is that
which is unseen.

Why was India discovered
by a da Gama, not a Ghandi?
O, it's India, not
a Europe.

Teach while you learn.
Learn while you teach.
Always be learning.
Always be teaching -
yourself.

Erase
Silence
Puppetize
Ally

Truth beats charisma
but the latter wins
so the former loses,
again.

Truth doesn't seek
approval so falsehood
beats it
always.

Relevance is
medicine.

They partitioned you
for their good. They
keep you divided
for their mood.
For good and mood
you are
divided.

Have zeal. But
remember
the wife of lot.
Don't be a
zealot.

Do not legalize marijuana.
Leave the weed
alone!

A false statement is true
if it is truly false.

You can't stop the sun
from shining, from
burning. But,
you can show its heat
where to go, what
to do, what to
burn, what not.

Government of
bureaucrats, by
the people, for
capitalists.

Your economic model is
broken.

Every billionaire wants
to solve world hunger
but none wants
to put their mouth where
their money is.

Not every good thing
is profitable, not
every profitable
thing is good.

The more you age,
the more you can
live among
humans
less.

A king has risen and
look, he's stamping out
anymore ruin to
the world than he has
and want to
ruin it.

If you did even a quarter
of the work this blender
does you'd make
2x as much noise
as it does so
shut up! Wait,
why'd I say that?

I missed the preview to
my funeral
yesterday. Had I
seen it, I'd do all I can
today not to, but I
dunno morrow.

Give me the plant, not
only the plant, not
nothing but the plant, but
the whole plant.

Looking up makes you dumb.
Looking down numb.
Look by all means
but ahead, as the eye
wants to be led.

I stopped sleeping
days ago, years...
When I start,
no one should
wake me up! But,
how can I start
when no one
can wake me up?

My brain has forgotten
how to sleep, but I'm
going there to
wake it up...
You're what?

Nature is who we are
when we can't be
aware of her. By
all means - go,
to nature.

Everyone's original
because everyone
copies
the original.

Keep your sense of
ownership and
ditch the
ownership.

Brutality wins
the fight, not
strength, not
fort-
itude,
Not you.

They made flesh delicious.
Now they're hooked
on it. They need a
war on flesh. Flesh?
Aren't they all
flesh?

The n in news is
not neutral, it's
nothing.

If we trusted each other
even a 1/4 as much as
we MZ & friends
we would have no
I, II, or III, I think.

I said I needed a
diagnosis until
it was
you have...

When we're done
recreating God,
we'd 've been
done with God.

God, I love condolences!
Wait, where's mine?

Don't copy America's model,
learn from its mistakes,
there's many.

Religion is what we
got from listening
to what we thought
we heard. Politics
from listening
to what we want
to hear.

They called it WWI
because they knew
a second one
was coming, and
a third...

As long as there's enemies
there'll always be better
enemies. Only
learn to make them.

Italics are trendy,
I'm told, but
I'm not
that bold.

Bad weather?
No, dad, it's raining,
yes.

Animals were not to be bred
but read, understood, and
allowed
to brood, to be.

Flavor is not taste but
it sure makes bitter
taste better.

Eat pig, not
pork. And,
if you
can't eat pig
then leave
the
pork alone, let
the pigs go
home.

If it ain't expiring,
who is?
If it keeps so long
who's length
is that?

Don't say it's expensive.
Say you can't afford it,
yet. Or say,
you don't have a budget
for it, not yet.

Don't say it's cheap.
Say you don't fancy it,
yet. Or say,
you don't need it,
no, not yet.

I won't last forever,
but I got a lifetime.
So my things
can, a lifetime.

There's a sure place
for plastic. Just
make it last
7 lifetimes, at least.

...and let them fill
the earth
but not in a hurry
to do so, for to
do so in a hurry
is to know not what
to do afterward, for
to the filling of things
there's no end, and
to do so in a hurry
is to fill up too soon,
and to be done
with it."

Crude oil is
blessing and curse,
depends whose
backyard

Now let's eat when
we're hungry, not
because
we're hungry.

When you have lived
long enough with man,
you would celebrate
the absence
of God; you would almost
touch the presence of
their invisibility.

Let it gel
Let it stew
Let it sit

Enjoy.

Free is the same problem
as freedom. Neither
is your birth free,
nor do you gain your
freedom when.

Miracle happens
now or ever because
God has no time,
but man all,
all the time.

Be centered but
have no center,
for as soon
as you do, all
will emanate from
it, including
a lot of your
trouble.

The earth has kept, and
shall keep, these many
years because
it has no center, only
a periphery, a soft one.

To win is to ready
for revenge, to lose
to keep fighting
till death do us in.

Is it doom and gloom
because the Bible says so,
or is it doom and gloom
because the Bible says so?

Can we bloom and boom
because we can bloom and boom,
or can we bloom and boom
because we can bloom and boom?

Humility is
bravery to
be humble

They took the butter out
to make another other.
It was complete before
they did. But, should
you bring back the butter,
the fat, the oil, the sheen
the luxury making,
you'd love your drink.
Enjoil your cocoa.

Can should never,
should should
as much as possible.
Have a reason, but
make one never.

Values are one thing,
comfort zone another.
You can step out of
the one, but
shouldn't defy
the other.

Take a while to cook
Take a while to eat
Take a while to digest
Take a while to die.

If it all takes a while
it'll all take a while.

Are you living because
you want to live or
because you can't
unlive what you live?

I chose home because
Unacceptable was
a lot above. But
would below be
better? Could I
know before I go?
Would I know?

The tomato is
not spoiling. It is
fighting spoilage.
It tries enough
for you until it gives
up and returns
to the soil, from where
it returns to you as
still a tomato.

Private is different
than secret is
injurious.
Private judicious.
For every seed
sprouts
when it’s time.

What is war
if there's a
war crime?

With great power comes great
stupidity, and to learn from
history is to be
broken by it.