Who is Shalom Kasim
Shalom Kasim has worked as editor-in-chief for the college magazine, Insights, at the Federal University, Wukari, Nigeria. He has also worked as Contributing Editor (Prose) at Eboquills, where one of his roles involved assessing incoming submissions. His short fiction has appeared in such publications as Loana Magazine, Pawners Paper, Association of Nigerian Authors, DSMag, Eboquills, and FU Review, Berlin. ...Read Full Biography of Shalom Kasim
Shalom Kasim Poems
- Moving To Jos
I moved in here last month.
So, here is what here is like:
Every time I peek from my window, the cool mountain air makes me shiver. I didn't know the mountains we read about in Geography Textbooks back in High School are so tall! Here and there, the mountains are ash-grey, with walls of fog coming down. They are mostly creased at the top and sky-piercing, with the foot of one of the mountains always covered in mist!
Then, the cold. ... - Hey Nib
Hey Nib, good evening.
I have been busy the past few days,
and have had to prioritise.
You know, there’s somewhere ... - The Loss Of Holset
He gets stranded in a new city in the morning, meets new friends by noon, chats them till evening, they desert him by night: Their mothers would beat them and send them out of the house, into the night if they returned home with a total stranger.
He takes a walk to the tea-stand, he gulps down two cups, and walks out to a restaurant. He buys a plate of weird food he cannot finish. He pays and tells the manager, “Have anyone sleeping here for you, Missus?” “No, I don’t want anyone sleeping for me.” “I insist, I will.” “Okay, you will.” She gathers everything ─pots, baskets, bowls, plates, cutlery, and jerry-cans─ into a bundle, and sets to leave. “Hey, Missus, you carry everything, what I sleeping here for?” “You, know that.” “I’s not sleeping where ain’t nothing, Missus,” he curses, loudly. She asks him to repeat what he said. He reluctantly does. She says they share a tribe, invites him back into the restaurant and unfolds a bed for him.
A text message comes in “Oga is back. Resume work tomorrow”. A lorry blares, “Garin Bala stret! Garin Bala, no kwana!”
He picks his bag, “Missus, you’s such a bad name.”... - You Should Not Go To Peru
“You should not go to Peru! I am warning you, Hamid!” Mother snarled as she always did when she was upset.
“Mother, I should go to Peru. That is where I should be.”
“If you go, who will come to me when I call? Who will light the coal? Who will shut the door when it’s cold and open it when it’s hot? Who will pray over my coffin when I die?” She sobbed.
Hamid reached out for Mother’s cheek. “I have a life. They don’t, and merely feed on hope. If I split mine, we may both smile.”... - Mustapha's Welcome
Welcome home, Mustapha! Guess what we have here? A Bank!
No one saves money with the devil anymore! No one saves money anymore in a tank!
They say the big men of the city feel for our village. Your remember Dangana, our noble Warrior?
He it was who spoke to them last year in their meeting of big men in Janeiro de Rio ...
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- For me, simplicity complicates everything, complexity complicates everything.
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