The happiest people on earth, By Niyi Osundare

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Too happy to know/The sobering weight of sadnessWe are the giggling giants/Of the earth’s happiest country

And the Living envy the peaceSuffering all night at the mercy of the bulletLean like a line from the book of painI count the stars from my lowly bedThe cockroaches tremble in their shining coatsA shark can shuffle through the ocean of my tears.

Of the happiest people on earthOf the happiest people on earthVisionless, clueless, and gleefully rapaciousSilence in a house of fleshless ribsOur laboratories have no labourMimic mammals that we are so proud to beOur universities happily shut down for monthsWe are the giggling giants

 

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