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JACOB KOBINA AYIAH MENSAH

EGYPTIAN DISH

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Btwn Antony & Cleopatra           we build our cider
with adroit negotiator at noon

at the squirming hump          bfr Octavia, who is
handling her ribs alone among colonies of ants, termites,
.           bees, snakes, etc, are abundant,
& where one can easily prescribe the clouds with tension
.           of false flowers,
& where around the corner a gentle benefactor walks slowly
to the grocery store for only children’s materials,
Octavius shows courage in this adoptive adversity.

The mess of raw flesh         & the black screaming tear off,

.           swarmed greedily over the sulking,
.          .           filling with deadly anger,

we show some kind of madness
& approach our bare skin slowly          in the alien dark like rubber cork in the Mediterranean Sea.

Antony & Cleopatra hurry in dying while Octavius waits for
outside in pains 

~Alexandria, Egypt

 

About the writer:
JACOB KOBINA AYIAH MENSAH (╥║│═╚╣╕╞│╬╕─╕╣│╘╘╞╚╕─│Ħ) (also known in the Turtle Mountains, North Dakota, as Sitting Mountain)], a multilingual poet, multidisciplinary artist, and algebraist, is the author of more than 19 publications of poetry books, including Witness, more than 50 prose and play books, and hybrid works. His poetry, songs, prose, art, and hybrid works have appeared in more than 500 journals and anthologies, including JMWW, Constellations, Trampoline, 1-70 Review, Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh, The Meadow, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Rigorous, The Decadent Review, and others. He lives in the southern part of Ghana, in Spain, and in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota.

Image: An Egyptian Feast by Edwin Longsden Long (1821-1891). Oil on canvas. No size specified. 1877. Public domain.

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