Dr. Oliver Akamnonu Rap to Mars

Annotation

Rap to Mars, a book of poetry, satire, and prose, attempts by words and art to dissect and sift through diverse aspectsof the life of man in his quest to assert himself as the king or queen of the universe. This is even in spite of mansobvious lapses, frailties, and entrapment. During the course of various attempts, sometimes, success smiles on man. But when failures present themselves,arrogant and deceitful man refuses to accept his obvious limitations. Often, in his ever-willing efforts to deceive the more gullible, man in his cowardice plays the monkey that uses the catspaws to extract nuts from the fi re. From a safe distance, the minion, man, details his more gullible fellow men to sacrifi ce themselves and others in sillyand assumed defense of the Almighty Maker. The martyr and suicide bomber along with their victims become thewilling and unwilling by-productsBut even in spite of his sometimes comical shenanigans, man, who unsuccessfully plays the angel on Earth, remainsman and suffers or causes others to suffer the pains arising from a perpetual struggle between the good and the bad asrepresented in Rap to Mars by Earths angels, suicide bombers, and whores. At the end of the day, man, mere mortal man, still fi nds himself trapped in his self-imposed cocoon of a shanty or amansion. In the latter, man again plays the elitist parent of a lone child while the downtrodden fi nd their pleasure bydoggedly obeying the injunction of increase and multiply. Rap to Mars is a mixed grill of fun, challenges, and what the evolving society was, what it is, and what it should fi ghthard not to be.