Beware of chatter

By Ben Ezeohagwu

I
Beware of chatter
full of clatter
as a prattler
on a platter

II
Beware of matter
full of chatter
as a trapper
in a litter

III
Beware of chatter
full of tatter
in a wrapper
as a shatter

IV
Beware of clapper
full of glitter
as a trigger
for a capper

V
Beware of lather
full of patter
as a plotter
in a totter.

Ezeohagwu is the first Black African Writer winner of Onigraffiks Prize for Literature (2017). He is Professor of Graphonomy and Chancellor, African American University, Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin, and can be reached at.
Email: benezeohagwu@yahoo.com; www.africanamericanuniversity.org; +234 81 731 755 40.