Charmed out of Saturday owurọ
sleep by freshly fried àkàrà and creamy pap
come rain or shine
twirling around church on Sundays in native
Crowning weekdays
with white rice & assorted meat stew
finishing each night
with a tall glass of warm choco milo
starting each day with dettol baths
smoothing my brown palmers cocoa
Keeping four weeks single plaits by aunty Stella collecting clusters of
small glittery butterfly hair clips
licking rainbow
sherbet powder off chubby palms
playing beehive bedlam at nana’s house
Paying 40p for bus rides
blasting slow jams on mp3 players
guzzling KA Sparkling Karibbean Kola
orange soda with Kenan & Kel
Conquering blue-raspberry jawbreakers slurping 2p red fizzy jelly snakes
sailing with Jacqueline Wilson
tuning into Sister Sister
spinning predicted Cs into As
raising £3.99 gooey alien babies