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NIGERIAN POLICE
They opened it,
the neat leather folds of my purse,
a place for crumpled bills, identity cards and fading receipts,
But not that,
They slipped it in,
Pieces of mariwana, I know nothing about,
They slip in like a secret I never told.

Their eyes fazed,
sharp with the certainty they invented,
as if their hands create the truth
with each gesture, each...