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THE CHAT - Warri Stanley
The photo you sent
is appearing black or white.
So which colour are you?
Are you black or white?
How black or white are you?
Waiting for her long typing response.
Woman hold your cell phone with your hands.
Firmly, reply me, reply, it's running late
Is your phone running or are your eyes blinking?
Please I ain't here for too many questions.
But perhaps, I'll emit to you anoth'r”
Do that fast, seeing is believing
because I'm a Nigerian.
Not quite long I received anoth'r
but this time with manifold colours.
Like old photos stored in an album.
Some colours faded old and grey.
u r very pretty, i like u
Madam, where are you sending this pictures from?
Twitter or facebook?
Definitely not instagram
Oh what's wrong with you men of Africa?
Her writing then summersaults to a low peak.
Woman, I’m the one waiting the hands of the clock here,
And even cheddar too, I’m a man of high taste and value.
Why the fury? I’ve not sucked your milk,
neither have I eaten your meat.
My temper hustling and hastening, rudely and bustling.
My cell phone was hot and angrily shut down.
-Warri Stanley
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