88 The Meadow Instances of Lost Alphabet and Names Babafemi Babatunde I —I can spell Mississippi without missing a word, Down to places I have never been, Excuse me I spell “Oklahoma” without flying from my spot In spelling bees We try things we never are Just trying hard to forget who we are In Sunday schools, i struggle for my identity; Local church, you read translated bibles & Each verse to its room of questions, of languages Yet names resonate in synonyms Solomon remain Solomon Issac still Isaac But antonyms my mother’s name —came with the fall of rain - Abejide. iia Here names were lost through grieves and rejections. iib the first time i was told my father’s third name, I struggle to spell it but I know how to translate it to
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