Kwame Opoku-Duku | afro-beat paradise with the disembodied spirit who now believes he can love

Kwame Opoku-Duku is the author of The Unbnd Verses, Vol. 1 (Glass Poetry Press, 2018). His work is featured or forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review, BOMB, Gigantic Sequins, Booth, and elsewhere. Kwame lives in New York City, and along with Karisma Price, he is a founding member of the Unbnd Collective.

Kwame Opoku-Duku's Website.

Also by Kwame Opoku-Duku: The Woman's Dress for Success Book (1978) sometimes the night's too bright he old head verses (ecclesiastes) 21-25

June 2018

Kwame Opoku-Duku

afro-beat paradise with the disembodied spirit who now believes he can love

"But these were trees without roots … Can disembodied spirits love?" — Boris Max, Native Son i'm sho there was times i talked slick in the past & everything i'm about to say is true (beat) i want to take you back to africa/ i want to father many children with you/ dress them with red earth & leaves/ put their photos on instagram for all the haters to behold i want to take them on safari/ show them the game/ dangle them over the lion's mouth/ i want you to make the best fufu in all the land/ & to sell our produce to restaurants with michelin stars i want you (short beat, thinks of words carefully) to only dream in twi & when we come back from vacation/ for the children to dance & sing mama & papa have come home to see their children/ now the war is over mama & papa have come home to see their children/ now we will have peace

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