Tompolo and the Bandits

By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou

Tompolo torn like tired  towels and Set ablaze in the furnace of verbal Bandits on rampage...
The blazing fire is the guardrail for The people;
The guardrail that stopped the steep Fall of the quarantined in Warri;
The guardrail giving comfort where There was cold in the land.
Tompolo is the roadside pepper Plucked by  people  passing by.
Tompolo is the pot, the pot broken by Bandits.
The shards of this pot spread farther Than JP Clark's 'broken china'.
Tompolo's shards have become the Salvage reservoir for generations Born and unborn in Warri.
The alchemy in Tompolo's shards is The stream of smiles in Warri...

Dr. Ekanpou writes from Akparemogbene, Delta State