anansi

     “It's not always about being the hero, sometimes it's about      
                    being the trickster.”—Anansi Boys      
     
                         akan-jamaican passion          
                    landscaped not by vext ration      
               a little axe that fells big trees      
          cunning in sun and rain and breeze      
     fearful of no assassin      
stealthy without moccasin      
     
                         an octopus with human      
                    face and spider’s acumen      
               he secrets tales from west afrique      
          his tongue inelegant but chic      
     he is no white house truman      
nor righteousness his crewman      
     
                         his family the pity      
                    of every far-flung city      
               his seances bring him potluck      
          e’en when he spends his wife’s last buck      
     to gorge himself colicky      
non-heroic and tricky      
     
                         anansewa his daughter      
                    may cause a vicious slaughter      
               unless her man agrees to feed      
          anansi and his starving breed      
     his bridge less than whitewater      
who has for marriage sought her
     
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