Post by Onyango Oloo on Oct 9, 2005 2:28:23 GMT 3
Crude Verse by Onyango Oloo
The hot air balloon kept climbing
higher and higher and higher
veering closer and closer and closer
to the vaunted stratosphere
leaving mere mortals gasping and austere
in the dire smog filled atmosphere
We heard the thumping of a hundred
thousand puffed out chests
We heard the clenching of a hundred thousand
gritted teeth
We heard the ululations of premature gesticulations
We saw the smirks, we saw the sneers,
We listened to the self congratulatory assurances
Of how they would install "their" imperial president
Tupende tusipende tutake tusitake
And then suddenly
Something called arrogant recklessness
Came like
a javelin flying fiercely through the air
To pierce the banana balloon on the side
And we saw the hot air rush out
As the fake promises gushed out with the hot air
And then suddenly
it was no longer about constitutions
and democratic restitutions
It was now, for some people, all about who had the
circumcized mboo
And who was a "real man"
Obviously in this strutting
Braggadocio laced
Machismo tribal swagger
The "real men" who boasted
To the apparently "unreal men"
that they were not "women"
Revealed their real male contempt for
Half of Kenya, nay more than half of Kenya's thirty two millions
The WOMEN of Kenya
Today, at the edges of a debacle
Today, on the eve of a collective death
By self inflicted cuts to individual throats
We see the future political corpses
Of the once and the future Tribal Kings and Queens
Coming down to lord over
the lowly from their mountain peaks
Awaiting their popular fate
At the hands of the Okoths and Wafulas
The Wanjikus and Rehemas
The Jepketers and the Mwikalis
The
Kilimos and Ntimamas are tired
Of perching on fences
And
Ngilu is about to leap over another one
Come Tuesday
Will
Saitoti do yet another chameleon turn
At the eleventh hour
Will Uncle Moody finally throw up in disgust
And will Kibaki be the biggest surprise of all
Crossing from Yes to No at the 23rd hour?
Who will remember the Mirugis and the Karuas
The Kivuthas and the Mungatanas
The Tujus and the Nyachaes
In January 2008?
higher and higher and higher
veering closer and closer and closer
to the vaunted stratosphere
leaving mere mortals gasping and austere
in the dire smog filled atmosphere
We heard the thumping of a hundred
thousand puffed out chests
We heard the clenching of a hundred thousand
gritted teeth
We heard the ululations of premature gesticulations
We saw the smirks, we saw the sneers,
We listened to the self congratulatory assurances
Of how they would install "their" imperial president
Tupende tusipende tutake tusitake
And then suddenly
Something called arrogant recklessness
Came like
a javelin flying fiercely through the air
To pierce the banana balloon on the side
And we saw the hot air rush out
As the fake promises gushed out with the hot air
And then suddenly
it was no longer about constitutions
and democratic restitutions
It was now, for some people, all about who had the
circumcized mboo
And who was a "real man"
Obviously in this strutting
Braggadocio laced
Machismo tribal swagger
The "real men" who boasted
To the apparently "unreal men"
that they were not "women"
Revealed their real male contempt for
Half of Kenya, nay more than half of Kenya's thirty two millions
The WOMEN of Kenya
Today, at the edges of a debacle
Today, on the eve of a collective death
By self inflicted cuts to individual throats
We see the future political corpses
Of the once and the future Tribal Kings and Queens
Coming down to lord over
the lowly from their mountain peaks
Awaiting their popular fate
At the hands of the Okoths and Wafulas
The Wanjikus and Rehemas
The Jepketers and the Mwikalis
The
Kilimos and Ntimamas are tired
Of perching on fences
And
Ngilu is about to leap over another one
Come Tuesday
Will
Saitoti do yet another chameleon turn
At the eleventh hour
Will Uncle Moody finally throw up in disgust
And will Kibaki be the biggest surprise of all
Crossing from Yes to No at the 23rd hour?
Who will remember the Mirugis and the Karuas
The Kivuthas and the Mungatanas
The Tujus and the Nyachaes
In January 2008?