Disjointed Conversations by Jean Wathugu | One Poem Only

One Poem Only · May 14, 2026 · 2m

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Disjointed Conversations

Jean Wathugu

Because I saw that obligatory smile

I am dismembering the foot in my mouth

Your eyes like to wander in the middle of my lame anecdote

So here’s my prosthetic humour

So I can fake it enough to make it

How about you write me a technical manual on how to be

So in between the jargon I can mourn the parts of me that don't fit in

You took me in before

Spitting me out

I’m a mishmash of mismatched ingredients

Preheating the oven to bake foreign philosophies into my own

I hoped you'd…