Kay Ugwuzor

Love is not for me, tufia kwa. I'm not going to fall in love. Not like Uncle Sam and that girl he always called ‘Obim’. Every time she came around she would wrap herself in him and they would whisper whatever into each other’s faces with their legs interlocked and their hands hung over their shoulders while leaning on his car outside. She would wear a very broad smile on her small face. Anytime I remembered her now that was the way I saw her, a big broad pretend smile. Uncle Sam quarreled with Mama over this girl ‘she has bewitched you’ Mama said when Uncle told her he wanted to marry Ada. ‘Mama, I love this girl so much and she loves me too, it is not a matter of being under a spell or anything of that sort’ Uncle Sam would answer in his educated accent. He chose not to speak Igbo with us after he came back from the University. Whether he did so to prove we were all illiterates or he was just used to speaking English, I didn’t know and didn’t bother to ask when he took

This Is A Subjective Opinion She would fix artificial eye lashes, put artificial nails, wear blush on her chin and take a picture in the bathroom of KFC then upload it on Facebook and Instagram. She would get hundred of likes and comments from dim-witted guys about how really pretty she is. Wow! There is an old saying- ‘Pictures don’t lie’- well that saying is almost perfectly obsolete in this generation. Many young social networkers have mastered the art of actually making pictures lie or taking then as far from truth as possible. If you can take a picture at the right time, in the right spot and post it with the right caption then you can make people think what you want them to think. Many people have been fooled into believing something about someone just by looking at the picture on face book. Pictures do say a thousand words and 70% of it on some occasions are lies. One must learn not to believe everything they see on social network until you see it live. A friend of mine upd

Society would always need someone to blame It seems no one has any fault to claim Fingers point this way and that When push comes to shove then its tit for tat People are always right in their own sight Its hard to see a black goat in the night Truth is tainted with lies Good is tinted with wiles One's greatest wisdom is another's foolishness One's farthest vision is another's shortsightedness As faces differ so are attitudes different You have what you prefer so don't resent Dry skeletons grace spray painted cupboard Four fingers point to you before one points forward Unbalanced account stained with red letter You say everyone is worse? You're not any better Kay Ugwuzor 23/12/2014

Once upon a pun I stumbled upon an urn I saw my future A bold bright picture It made my eyeballs burn There I starred a star A bright and shooting star To light the sky And fly so high Make gravity look bizzare I swore to live the dream To the fullest, to the brim To be the best To beat the rest To be the crème dela crème I know Not only I have seen His future on a screen Who wants to be what he can be Though the world may not agree I know my future is so green

LIFE IS SHORT DEATH IS SURE HELL IS REAL TURN TO JESUS The sign at the back of a bus on Lagos - Abeokuta express way. I stared at it and the words were dancing in my head - LIFE IS SHORT, DEATH IS SURE. There was not always much to look at in the taut traffic that often plagued this part of Lagos. Vehicle moved bumper to bumper, the yellow danfo buses poked in and out of moving lanes trying to get to one end of the road to drop off passengers who were stopping at 'alon' (the way conductors said it), One disgruntled driver yelled at the other for being stupid, the other yelled back that he was mad. I wondered how people expected Nigerian roads to be safe when there were Idiots and mad men behind the wheels. If you weren't at the wheels of a vehicle, you would be likely to dose off in the traffic. I would sometimes look out the window and see passengers asleep with their mouth open, make up and all, because they woke extra early that Monday morning and on every other