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<h4>TITLE: WHEN I’M EIGHTEEN<br>
AUTHOR: DAVID ISHAYA OSU<br>
GENRE: POETRY<br>
NO. OF PAGES: 26<br>
YEAR: 2020</h4>
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<h3 style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><strong>“</strong></h3>
<h3 style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Here is a neat universe, of everything beautiful about a poet’s mind, where a mother’s mouth is a treasure-box brimming with love. The future is not far, it is here, crafted with the dexterity of the poet’s imagination.</h3>
<h3 style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">— <strong>Saddiq Dzukogi</strong>, author of <em>Inside the Flower Room</em></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>…</em></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: right;">David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist and street photographer. His work has appeared in <em>Magma Poetry</em>, <em>Poetry Wales</em>, <em>The Griffith Review</em>, <em>The Oxford Review of Books</em>, among numerous others. He is the poetry editor of <em>Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel</em>, and a board member of Babishai Poetry Foundation based in Uganda.</p>
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