Afolabi Boluwatife

Afolabi Boluwatife is a 4th Year Clinical student at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. He is currently working on his first chapbook of poetry. His poems have been published on Kalahari Review, Kollectiv, Africanwriter, Expound Magazine, Praxis Magazine and some editorial boards at the University.

A Game of Numbers

Say an arbitrary night
(could be moonless or not
depending on the mood of the universe
and if she is interested in this play set
before us)
say a man
our protagonist
walks into a street and the
street swallows …

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