I think it rains
That tongues may loosen from the porch
Uncleave roof tops of the mouth, hang
heavy with knowledge.
Source: In My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- Wole Soyinka, (Jul 13 1934-____), Nigerian playwright, novelist, critic; He wrote of W. Africa satirically with a tragic sense of obstacles to human progress; first African, first black to win the Nobel Prize Lit., 1986.