*Winner of the 2021 Eriata Oribhabor Pidgin Poetry Prize, The Muse Journal.
I go buy akara for junction one Saturday morning
I see you dey talk, your voice sweet like honey
My heart beat begin beat fassfass
E Don happen, na love be this lass lass
No time to waste, as a sharp girl I begin whine my waist
This akara joint go be my dance hall
Take my hand con be my all in all
Dance with me I go be your queen
Because na for this junction I find my king
You be my king I nor dey kid
Marry me make we make kids
God bless this Saturday because you don find your missing rib
“Wetin you wan buy?” the woman ask me dey vex
“Akara and bread”, I reply am with stress
I pay for the thing begin wakadey go
I look back you nor bother reason my side
Now I don reach house and na you still dey mind
If nor be love be this then tell me wetin e be nor lie
Kathryn Oluwatosin Olushola is a young writer and photographer who hails from Lagos State, Nigeria. She is currently a 200 level student in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.