LJD: It is a nice and emotional naration. 
 And I also repeat after you in chorus, thus:
 

[So we sobbedSo we criedSo we wailedSo we laughedBut we also shouted expletivesAnd even more expletives to temporarily drown our sorrows]   Thanks for sharing. Best,Yero      ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.htmlTo Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-lTo contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:[log in to unmask]¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:18:14 +0000
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Subject: [G_L] THE  LAMENT
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The Lament

By
the roadside

On
way to their village 

With
hands under chins

Sobbing
gently, crying audibly, wailing sadly

And
rather incomprehensibly, intermittently laughing hilariously

As
if on cue, they then loudly uttered a succession of expletives

 

A perturbed
oldie traveller 

Chancing
on the melancholy six

Gently
enquired what be the matter

One
after one the suspicion 

The
very strong suspicion

Invisible
invaders were about in their village

 

My
brother’s body found on outskirts of village

My
father disappeared from village mosque

My
cousin abducted from village football field

My
uncle in prison for telling stories to village chief

My
sister beaten for not clapping for distinguished visitors to village 

My
nephew with village chief for writing nonsense about distinguished visitors

 

So
we sobbed

So
we cried

So
we wailed

So
we laughed

But
we also shouted expletives

And
even more expletives to temporarily drown our sorrows

 

But
we were called uncivil

Uncivilised
even

By
others also condemning the invisible invaders

For
shouting a few expletives 

At
the traumatic invisible invaders of our village

What
utter nonsense this

 

The
oldie traveller agreed our expletives we should escalate

For
death is infinitely worst than the worst form of expletives

For
disappearance is worst than a few mild expletives

For
abduction is worst than a handful of expletives

For
unmerited imprisonment is worst than occasional expletives 

For
physical abuse is worst than few expletives directed at the village traumatizer


 

How
misplaced this ridiculous lament of our civilised and cultured men and women 

 

 

 Lamin J Darbo

 

 

 

 

 

 
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