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My Earliest Memories

Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
Friday, January 19, 1990, Late Evening

�A baby boy was born after hours of intense labor. The medical team assigned male at birth.

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My earliest memories
Are still listed among the most unsolved chronicles
Immediately after mum put to bed
Even before the midwife reaches for me
I stood up and walked with a waddle
So exhausted I placed my back on the wall of the room at an angle �
Medical personnel in the room were all
Gobsmacked, shocked or brain dead! �
All eyes on me, and I stared back at them �
With this accurate vision of an eagle
To my 3'oclock is a tray and I reached out to get a scalpel..

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Yelling at the top of my lungs
In the first few words I ever uttered
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Mama! �
Pls let me get back inside your womb
Ma! �
Don't let me get involved �
Out here in this world is chilling and so cold..
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Only some minutes old into the world, I got all these abilities.. �
Alas! �
The callous doctor only acknowledged my abnormalities
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I heard her reporting saying;
"In view of the fact that
This baby is disable and undesirable
All his living cells are sickles �
His auricles served as his ventricles
And the ventricles functioned as his auricles
His aorta... � My yell of protest interrupted.. �

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Mama! �
Pls let me back inside your womb
Ma! �
Don't let me get involved �
I'm far more dangerous than all the people out there making and dropping nuclear bombs..
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Everyone in the labor room had these looks on their faces that scream �
Unbelievable! �
Me addressing the room
"Am neither a joke nor a riddle
Why the hell are you staring at my umbilical cord? �
I am gonna sail where so many people failed.. �