THE SKELETON SAYS IT ALL
An Anthology of Poems
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MATYR OF TENTH NOVEMBER (FOR KENULE SARO WIWA) That thy whole being may bow fully To the noose of violence That hungry state maggots May quench their long drawn hunger On the sweet elements Of your spunky carrion. I died my soul to starvation And lost my memory to your fate On Eko bridge on my marred natal anniversary Least presumptuous and day dreaming In the noon traffic Of the anarchy that is called power Flowing from empty tunnels Of cadavers in vicious motion. Let thy tears, if any, nourish The roasted earth to give fresh life On your most glorious exit In this cruel abruption When skies turned grey and gloom Threatening to rain blood on rainbows And archaic birds howled ominously Protesting disturbance Upon our undignified return to their stone age. Formats Book Details The Skeleton Says It All is a special collection of one hundred poems spanning across all speres of life, and composed over several years from the Biafran war time of 1967. From dingy experiences of the wasteful war, the deep emotional pangs of the the judicial murder of the Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro Wiwa by a brutal dictator, the murder of the ace journalist Dele Giwa by a benevolent Dictator the "evil genius", endemic corruption that has rendered most Nigerian citizens hapless, down memory lane to the rigors of intense love for Ifeoma which was uprooted by peer ego. They are frank perceptions of issues, events, encounters, experiences and ironies in our national life, love, romance, integrity, challenges, injustices, nature and philosophy. Truly, life is good but the system is bad. Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna, popularly known as VOA by his peers, was born on November 11, 1951 at Aba in Nigeria. He attended Government Secondary School, Afikpo where he was Captain of Mboto House and Editor-in-Chief of the school's "Purple Times" newsletter. He also attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he acquired the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc Hons) degree in Biochemistry, and was the President of the Society of Biochemistry Students; the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria where he obtained the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.,B.S) degrees and was Editor-in-Chief of the "MEDILAG Journal". He is a member of the American College of Physician Executives. He has been a prolific writer from childhood, and has written many newspaper articles and features. Most of his early works got lost during the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-1970). This is his first complete work
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