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France won the World Cup. Our dark-goggled dictator died from eating a poisoned red apple though everyone knew it was the CIA. We lived miles from the Atlantic. We watched Dr. Dolittle, Titanic, The Mask of Zorro. Our grandfather, purblind and waiting for the Kingdom of God, sat on a throne in his dark room, translating Dante. The Galileo space probe revealed there was an entire ocean hiding beneath a sheet of ice in Jupiter’s moon. The Yangtze River in China lost its nerve and wanted vengeance. Elsewhere a desert caught fire. We got a plastic green turtle and named it Sir Desmond Tutu. A snake entered our house through the drain and like any good son, I ran and hid under the bed. -- Excerpt from Gbenga Adesina, "The People's History of 1998" Full poem here: https://poems.com/poem/the-peoples-history-of-1998/ #GbengaAdesina #Poetry #TodaysPoem