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On a day as this,

You’ll feel your muscle pull

It will pull right in front of mother’s eyes

She will be in the living room

As you try to pick up the decoder remote

The same remote she called you from the room to get for her,

who was just four steps away from it,

Immediately, with a toothpick beside her mouth she’ll ask

“What is it?”

You’ll reply,

It’s muscle pull

She’ll say something like this

“Why won’t you have muscle pull when you’re always pressing your phone?”

Involuntarily your eyes will give her this queer look

The same look you give away when somebody say’s

“it’s not the phone that is my issue, it’s the sim”

You try not to act all clothed in shock

Until she makes things worse

“Check the room divider; take two tablets of paracetamol and drink”

There and only there you understand

That every African mother, is a savage by default

On a day as this,

You’ll feel your muscle pull

It will pull right in front of mother’s eyes

She will be in the living room

As you try to pick up the decoder remote

The same remote she called you from the room to get for her,

who was just four steps away from it,

Immediately, with a toothpick beside her mouth she’ll ask

“What is it?”

You’ll reply,

It’s muscle pull

She’ll say something like this

“Why won’t you have muscle pull when you’re always pressing your phone?”

Involuntarily your eyes will give her this queer look

The same look you give away when somebody say’s

“it’s not the phone that is my issue, it’s the sim”

You try not to act all clothed in shock

Until she makes things worse

“Check the room divider; take two tablets of paracetamol and drink”

There and only there you understand

That every African mother, is a savage by default