And most of this loving is simultaneously, and my lovers are aware that there are others.
We don't swear exclusivity here.
My mom left my dad near death.
Her new boyfriend beat my father into a coma.
The doctors fear that he may never wake up again.
My sister's boyfriend is an arrogant ass.
He has also slept with her best friend,
Me.
It was good.
But, he is an arrogant ass.
My mom came by the house today.
She was wearing clothes that our youngest, Lola, could easily fit in.
And her handbag had dyed his hair platinum white.
I left a lover today.
She was demanding too much.
Wanting the things I cannot give.
I do not want to give my heart to one person, people are scum.
The doctors at the hospital are asking us to have our mom arrested.
The social workers are refusing to believe it was my mom that did this.
One of them says, "perhaps she is getting revenge for something he did to her."
Mensah scoffs, they know nothing about our mother.
And father was right, men have no advocate under society's expectations.
This is where I should explain our family to you.
There is a mother, whom we all share.
And five fath yaers whom some of us share, and some of us are exclusive to.
There are ten children, mother popped them out like hot akara.
We all have a year between us.
Except for Maria and Lola.
They have three years between them.
Marcus, Adeokin, Tade, Lenny, Jacob, Sarah, Anna, Mensah, Maria, and Lola.
We're the dysfunctional ten.
Between us, our fathers have different occupations: a lawyer, a thief, a tailor, a musician, and an Ifa priest.
Mom likes variety.
The Blondie is a dancer.
Our current father is the tailor.
He's the one in the hospital.
The house smells like a pot lab.
Did I mention that we like to smoke?
Tade shoots from time to time.
It helps him cope with a volatile market, stocks.
We do not like shisha in the house.
And our cousins send us legalized marijuana from the abroad, candy is what we call it at the airport.
The Blondie is making eyes at Maria.
Mother smacks him upside the head, she is jealous.
She has saggy tits, and her BBL was quack.
She does what she does best: she curses at Maria.
Lenny tells her to stop, she is hurting his ears.
She tells him to hug a transformer.
And then she walks out.
Adeokin comes in, he cannot find our 'stash bag.'
Yes, mommy dearest is an addict.
I tell my lovers I am done.
And they drag me on Snapchat.
Sarah makes a reel out of it.
The blunt was a good one.
My sister's boyfriend is sipping his wine.
Pompous, arrogant prick.
A drug overdose sounds very plausible.
But Sarah is in love with him.
Women.
The lights turn blue,
and then red,
and then white.
Lola is pouring water on my face.
I sometimes see things that are not.
The End.
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