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    Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune
    Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune
    Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune
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    Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune

    By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.

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    Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune explores the complexities of human existence. It highlights the lability or existential lack of constancy in fortunes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 5, 2004
    ISBN9780595772278
    Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms: Wheel of Fortune
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    Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.

    The first recipient of the 1988 John J. Reyne Artistic Achievement Award for English Poetry at New York City College, where he earned his bachelor?s degree (summa cum laude) in English, Communications and African-American Studies, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., was born and raised in Ghana. He teaches English and Journalism at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. A graduate with Master?s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Temple University, Philadelphia, Okoampa-Ahoofe regularly writes political and cultural columns for the Accra Daily Mail, Ghanaweb.com, Africa-Forum.Net, AfricaNewsAnalysis.com, as well as occasional book reviews and commentary for the New York Beacon and the Ghanaian Chronicle. He is married and has a daughter.

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      Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms - Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.

      DorkordickyPonkorhythms

      Wheel of Fortune

      Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

      iUniverse, Inc.

      New York Lincoln Shanghai

      Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms

      Wheel of Fortune

      All Rights Reserved © 2004 by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic,

      electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage

      retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

      iUniverse, Inc.

      For information address:

      iUniverse, Inc.

      2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100

      Lincoln, NE 68512

      www.iuniverse.com

      Library of Congress Control

      Number: 2004095051

      ISBN: 0-595-32435-5

      ISBN: 978-0-5957-7227-8 (ebook)

      Printed in the United States of America

      DEDICATION 

      To: Raymond R. Patterson (1929-2001);

      Atukwei Okai;

      Doris Dolly Mensah (aka Mama Afua Oye);

      also:

      Nana Yaa Agyeiwaa and Abena Boakyewaa Amoh;

      Afua Birago and Kwabena Boapea;

      Abena Aninwaa Okoampa-Ahoofe, and

      all their cousins of our third extant generation, who are also our future’s

      bridge and pride; and, of course, also their grandparents (and most

      recent ancestors), our mediators with the immediate past.

      Contents

      DEDICATION

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Friends Again

      Idea

      Contest

      As It Was…

      Lingering Questions

      Memory (For John Mano)

      II

      Iron-Fisted Mutoko

      Be Grateful

      Time To Go Home

      Suzuko Morikawa

      Scholarly Rat

      Michelle in A#

      Briar Patch

      Paulette

      Jaclyn

      Jaclyn II

      Language Arts

      Arrival

      July 4th

      Waco Echo

      Pornography

      Crisis

      II

      III

      IV

        V

      VI

      Motherhood

      (For Janet Akosua Edge)

      Motherhood II

      Motherhood III

      Side Notes

      Self-Obit

      Certified Liars

      Papa Pushkin*

      Rachel

      Besieged

      Awo Boatemaa

      Intimations on Character Assassination

      For BryantLouis

      (aka Joseph Fening, RIP)

      Cashel

      If Charles Could Be…

      Happy Birthday, Nkechie

      Ogbanje

      (To Chinua Achebe)

      For Chris Hani

      Step-Children

      Mischief-Maker

      Your Type of Men

      About the Author

      Criticai Acclaim for Okoampa-

      Ahoofe’s Poetry

      Acknowledgments 

      gl am grateful to the following relatives, friends and colleagues who have influenced my work and life in constructively diverse ways: Augusta Boateng-Sampong and David Arkorful; Martin and Hilda Okwaning-Aboagye; Abu S. and Naana Abarry; William K. Egyir; Miatta Hai and Walter Smith; Harold Bellinger; Dolores Smalls; Calvin Andrew; Abena Y. and E. K. Baning, Yaa Agyemang and Frank Sykes; Maame Yaa Adowaa; Abena Aninwaa Okoampa-Ahoofe; Adwoa Okoampa-Ahoofe and Kwame N. Amoh; Margaret Agyemang-Duah; Bruce Urquhart, Marian Parish, Roberta Kramer, Ralph Nazareth, Pramila Venkateswaran, Sammy Browne, Joe Asamoah and Evans Kwaku Owusu-Nyamah. And, of course, Mike Altman, my Publishing Services Associate (PSA) at iUniverse, Inc. As usual, the list is inexhaustible, and so are my appreciation and gratitude.

      Introduction 

      When it was originally published in April 1997, Dorkordicky Ponkorhythms contained no introductory paragraphs; instead, it sported a brief prefatory note which read, exactly, as follows:

      In courteously presenting to the world the poems herein,

      the mouth-watering temptation to over-explicate both the

      obvious and immutably cryptic has been religiously avoided.

      My belief has always been that any unsolicited attempt to

      explain (sic) the poetic artifact, on the part of the literary artist,

      constitutes a mortal failure; for any

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