BAD GARDENERS

Haruna Abdulmajid

You pride yourself as a nursery where bright minds are nurtured, yet in your nursery are
Bad gardeners. The unpleasant taste from the sullen pill she swallowed still lingered on her
tongue. When the women at the stream talk about their children in colleges, It reminds her of a
son that left for the city to get a degree but returns in an ambulance.  Because plants grow best
in this nursery by parroting the gardeners, and he has shallow roots that finds it difficut to gulp
down complex equations and formulas, he was labelled a failure and uprooted from the beds.
Depression is a perilous voyage where only the spirited survives. The following morning he
drank hemlock for breakfast.
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Oh self-acclaimed hot bed! aren't you ashamed of yourself? You've separated the cat and the
kitten. wrapped the cat in a foil of grief. Your gardeners irrigate the flowers with torrid lessons,
without minding if they hurt their roots trying to absorb them. This nursery is a forge where
metals are heated and reheated, until they lose their inert properties.