Ìbàdàn

Headache inducing hoots of Micras™
Roofs as brown as the mud of the thousands small rivers:
The crowd. The noise. The odor of makeshift dumps.
Colorful albeit loathsome Yorùbá adjectives.
Olórí burúkú, ọkọ olosi.
Ìbàdàn. Forever my home.

Ridwan Akinkunmi Ajagbe