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IV. Boogie
Nigerian radio: they can never seem to get it right, that balderdash
of guffaws and half-played songs, but it fills the room with English
on windy nights when the neighbor girl screams and screams. We open
the balcony door to catch the night breeze, turn out the lights because
our song has come on air and we are sick of the grammar books stacked
six deep. We false start, stop, start again, but this is wild and
sweet, three stories up and no one sees we don't know how to boogie.
Erin Sweeten is a recent graduate of Johns
Hopkins University Writing Seminars and now teaches introductory
creative writing at the school.
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