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Future Plans By Akumbu Uche

Today burns with jealousy
When I tell her
All about my plans with you
Ever the grudge bearer,
Yesterday scoffs
It didn't work out between us;
What makes you think
You have a better chance with Tomorrow?

Akumbu Uche is a Nigerian writer who works across several genres. Her poems have been published by, or are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Canthius, The Cincinnati Review, and Konya Shamsrumi. In 2022, she was a writer-in-residence at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection.

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