Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah
Her ‘Lifestyle’ in the magazine for sale: a painting in collage for Salon des Refuses, France

3 July 2009

 girl called
 Maybe to marinate China
 into the rampant today of an open room. 'mojo'
 and cockroaches are the hieroglyphs of home.

                  O observe
                                    Features include superior one-piece moulded construction
            It's not often I see you in front of me

 stop traffic and families picnic
                   to being just a muttering

                                  deflects reification
                    isn't chocolate at all-

   Keep humming the latest toilet cleaner
   Along the independent variable of time or narrative

   Sri Lanka             29755              living
   He'd idle behind,
   there'll be no billy ocean

                   so he burned them in a bonfire at the end of the year,
    I found them shrunk with the cold,
    and vapour's glyphs are torn and tossed.

   gathered from palaeochannels visible
   The railway iron & they refused to cross, the gap of fear
    bag. the stamp isn't one youd           want or even read.  cramps flower
    seems a bourgeois grandeur

   pronunciation and a pun: a popular bottle of fizz (light-reading). For the part
       about
 the secret drawer, so hefty
  Sight has its own methodology. Hearing too.

                  and shot with liverspots like extra moons
  Something with which to instrument his life on the unmasked pages of his room.

                   Wrath and keyboards
 half lotus
 at the bar- 'is repetition still itself?'

 Words once were more than writing, were their own
 like a valle d'aosta autostrada
 the spaces between breaths.

                    Yet calling which way now Hansel

 tell me
 and say: Let me clean your glasses.

 the novel on the cover of          the Bonnard painting.  thats a clock
Coffe slurped smoke in-out
 with the Star of David
 behind him. Immediately familiar,
 steel frame mesh protective cover easy to assemble Includes adaptor 150cm tall
 touch the walls with bare hands.

Note: This poem was made using the third line from each poem in the 'Custom' issue.



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Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

About Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah


Ayiah Mensah, a vegetarian, poet, artist, translator, journalist, teacher, now edits The Rough Sheet Tanka Journal and manages Kofi Edofo Gallery and Kukubenkuka, a bar of food of tanka. He lives in the southern part of Ghana.



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