The Patient Dog (A flash sonnet) by Simpa Omoluabi
Fourteen year Mumbi, her elder siblings and father
arrived the new refugee camp, Katakuta, last night.
They were apportioned a tent,
each given an aluminum bowl, and were told
whenever they hear the bell ringing it is for feeding,
so the bell rang this morning
and they joined the food rush.
Afterwards Mumbi returned tearful.
Her father asked, ‘What’s the problem?’
She responded, ‘I got almost nothing.
I was being patient for the rush to die.’
The father replied,
‘What else does the patient dog ends with
after others had licked the meat?
It ends with nothing but the bone.’
© Omoluabi S. Simpa
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