Eneh Akpan Writes: Day 3

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Monday, April 3, 2017

Day 3: Key to the City

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I hold the key to the city;

It’s golden, it’s glossy and it blings.

I stand between two valleys,

Shouting above the roar of the winds.

I survey all the varieties

Of blessings that accompany the lessons.

Then the city called to me

Because I hold its key.

Here I stand before its gates of gold

Savoring the wind thro the keyhole,

I can’t shake the feeling it’s destiny.

This calling’s bringing out the best of me.

And somehow that is the key,

My entrance into the city,

It’s the prize for staying true to the game;

It is all that I strive to be, made plain.

This city of mine;

The city of lights,

Is mark of the prize—

The perfection of the I.

Akpan

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Day 3: Disturb'd

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Sure you thought I was keeling over,

So you decided to make me pull over.

Make me turn around and follow the general direction.

Please don’t disturb me.

I’m only having a revelation.

Don’t disturb me.

I’m about to reach my destination.

Ama keep my peace of mind thank you.

Ama ride this controversy cause I paid my dues.

Sure you saw me struggling and moved to lend a hand

Please don’t disturb me.

You just can’t dig my program.

Don’t disturb me.

I just gleaned the perfect plan.

Keep your quarter I’m done here brother,

I’m doing just fine surrounded by drama.

I’m being bettered and you don’t hear me whining

Please don’t disturb me.

My mind’s musing immutable things.

Don’t disturb me.

In a moment ama walk thru that exit.

Akpan

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Today’s Prompt: It’s your 18th birthday and, upon it, your parents deliver some pretty shocking news: You’re not really human. They admit that they’ve been covering up the fact that you are actually a (fill in the blank). After hearing the news you still decide to go to school, but this school day is different than all your school days past, especially when it’s revealed to others what you truly are.

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Word Count: 1,406

“I can’t make things pop out of thin air if that’s what you’re thinking.”

I could feel their eyes crawling all over me like a million needles and pins.

“So what exactly do you do, then?” Alicia asked.

“Maybe, he can spin a web like Spiderman.” Rebecca suggested.

There were a few giggles after that last statement.

“Well…” I said.

“Maybe, he can dance standing on his head.” That was Dick.

This announcement was followed by an uproar.

“I’ve not really attempted that one but yeah, I think, maybe, I could if I gave it a try,” I said.

“Don’t think. Just do it,” Dick said.

“You don’t think before breathing, do you?” Rebecca.

“Or before falling in love,” said a kid with a low punk haircut whom we called Groovy.

That got everybody in the classroom roaring with laughter. Even Amen, my best buddy, was slamming his fist into his desk again and again bellowing a belly laugh.

“Sshhhh…..”

And the silence held sway for a moment.

Just then some kid in the front seat flung a ball made from crumpled paper at me. I caught if off the air and made a paper aircraft out of it in the space of 5 seconds and tossed it. It glided in an arc round the room and returned to me. I snatched it out of the air.

The silence weighed down on my eardrums like a dead weight. I felt the eyes of the entire class trained on me. As far as I was concerned, I knew I had done something awesome but if you asked me to create a chemical formula to explain the process, you’d be barking up the wrong tree.

“Dude, how on earth did you do that?” Dick whose eyes bulged with surprise asked.

“I didn’t think. I just did it,” said I.

“Do it again,” Shorty said.

“I can’t.” I lied. “I don’t know how it happened.” Which was true. “Reflexes, I guess.” Which was both the truth and a lie. Read more here IntShoWriMo 2014

Eneh Akpan
June 3rd, 2014