Gunsmithing

The fight in my school

We call it kungful

I didn't stop until I graduated 

From primary school 

I kept beating my mates

I was the best in martial artist 

And every film we watched

From Bruce Lee, charlie chaplain 

Down to jentli and Jackie Chan 

We experimented them 

Until my junior secondary 

Fine arts had dominated though my best was in primary four and five and six 

I once drew my teacher's portrait 

Had declined prior to exit of junior secondary school 

Three things abide

From judo,to fine arts down to immense mastery of dictionary 

A budding lexicographer and later shaped by Shakespeare and wole Soyinka 

In the later years 

First nover at about 12 years

Then a colosus in Lagos 

In the art of punsmithing 

My true gunsmithing 

Deployed three million vocabularies 

In my gunsmithing of words and phrases 

An obscurantist in his own right

Soyinka my forerunner