Poetry

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By

Success Akpojotor

China’s Jerusalem

There’s a Jerusalem in the Far East

From whence a lyric is like yeast:

Take down Jesus

Take down the cross

Put up the new Messiah

No more Ramadan

Look up to the Chinese stew

Not Jesus

Not Dalai Lama

Not Falun Gong

No more Eid-el-feasts

Look up to the almighty communist

Char the holy papyri

Curse Falun Gong

Or your kidney

Liver

heart

Will become stew for the Diet

Welcome to China’s Jerusalem

Success Akpojotor

Success Akpojotor, born in Benin City, writes poetry, prose, and theatre. A graduate of the University of Benin’s Department of History and an Ambassador appointed by the Fundación César Egido Serrano, Madrid, his work has been published widely online and in print in newsprint and magazines including Nigerian Observer, Poets Reading The News, Heavy Feather Review, and Wax Poetry and Art, and has been anthologized in Lou Lit Review: The Literary Journal at Louisburg College, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Best New African Poets 2017 Anthology, and Mounting The Moon: Queer Nigerian Poems. @sadavidia.