Bernard Gabriel Okurut

A Shithole Of A City

 

 

I live in a city built on seven hills,

Poverty, ignorance and disease!

Corruption, tribalism, police brutality

And dictatorship.

 

I live in a country

Where leaders cannot wait for Karamoja to develop.

This cursed corner of Africa,

Where women sell vaginas  for a living

And recruit young virgins 

Into the vagina trade at an early age.

 

A shithole of a city

Ruled by dung blocked eared leaders

Who only listen to our cries when

Our mothers storm the streets naked!

 

A country with nothing to show

But increasing death rates, inflation and cars 

Stuck on muddy potholed roads!

 

The stinking urine from statehouse

Floods the Nakivubo channel to our

Bedrooms,

Our sons are hacked to death by those

We pay to protect them!

Our daughters seek refuge in brothels.