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Ships Have Been Wrecked Here |By @kelvinKaesa
There will be days like this; She will hold you hostage by the curve of her smile She will say “I love you” and mean it with her every breathe; Like a sufi poet Like the walls of a cave giving in she will break at your lips She will lay her soul at the […]
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I am scared
I am scared. I wasn’t always scared, but the past few months, this fear has been with me constantly. Seeing that I was not hurt, I guess I shouldn’t be scared but I am. It was a Saturday, a little after seven in the evening, I think. I needed to get home, but I only […]
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Rainy Days
There is something about being in a Nairobi jav on a rainy day. For starters, getting into a jav is a problem. You have to wade through flooded streets. Past hawkers who will not screaming ‘Umbrella mia mbili umbrella mia mbili’. They are annoying, these hawkers; not just because they are attempting to sell you […]
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Two Cents
My son’s 3 hair strands have finally grown into a beard. I cannot tell you how proud I am. Proud of his clean-shaven head. Proud of his skin; one that is full of melanin. Proud of a son that understands my loathing of Mohawks and shares it. I am in awe. The process of growing […]
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Beauty
This last Wednesday, I arrived home way earlier than I usually do. So I locked up myself in my room to read. With the shift in hours, the material changed from the academic to Nora Roberts. This shift was also characterized by a cozening up and by around 10 O’clock, I was ready to doze […]
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