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You wash your hands. You lather them with antibacterial soap and you scrub till the skin is raw and red. Then you turn the tap off with your elbow pushing the bathroom door open with your back to exit. You sit, it has now become your days’ work, you sit [...]

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I a nobody On the literary scene Watched them as they craft Saw the adoration As with the who is who They laughed Poetry & stories poured from their fingertips like manna To be devoured by critics, judges and fans I a nobody watched from afar Parchment white mocking my [...]

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The children spun in a circle as the sun cast an eerie glow. Singing… Corona, Corona, She will soon own yuh; You will soon die and enter that pie in the sky. Then they burst into fits of laughter at their morbid joke. It had been over a year since [...]

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I came to the garden deep within the hills I came to the garden and felt peace be still I walked on the pathway enjoying the breeze Wrapping myself in the wonder of the trees I came to the garden And finally felt free I came to the garden and [...]

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There is a guard standing outside my Ivory Tower, rifle in hand but no bullets to use. There is a guard standing outside my Ivory Tower, yet, poison drips onto my lips as reality threatens to ensue. There is a guard standing outside my Ivory Tower, standing tall in ebony [...]

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Before Corona I was living the glamourous life Partying from dust to dawn Not a care in the World Just thinking about me, myself and I Then without warning, Bam! Corona, appeared Life style changed Couldn’t do a task Without wearing a mask Everywhere I went long lines saluted me [...]

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Flour on lacatan leaves. The image held little form in her cloudy mind as she stared through the small window on the ward. She was lucky to have a bed at the end of the pasty, bare room. Still, she began to question the serendipity when the rancid smell of [...]

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The ghost of La Soufriere hovering in the air or drifting down like duppy dust on us.

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A flashing flashing flashing flashing flashing light shatters night’s ebony dome: five hundred strikes per minute. Multiply by sixty, equals total strikes approximately. Did the driver vacate his seat behind heaven’s wheel storm away leaving the strobe light speed on high? First time I’ve seen such a thing in my [...]

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