14. Accra Vignette (B)

Alongside the clay and rock 

of a red road pox marked 

with potholes shaped like

treachery and infested with

traffic that drives at the speed 

of tepid raindrops stumbling 

onto the cityscape like clumsy 

seasonings, is a building stuck 

in limbo between construction 

and deconstruction, and crawling 

with sprawling black, spray-painted 

words that read:

JUDAS WAS ALSO A DISCIPLE.

And weather weary eyes, blinking 

in search of context, wonder:  

fact or warning?