The poetic license you use Baba allow me to see the village setting in the poem as allusive. The village idiot paints a disrespectful picture. It further cement the unfortunate attitude some has of villagers. It is good that you expose to us your village roots, which is fine but sadly your poem is too harsh on the villager in question. The dissatisfaction in the poem is that, one would expect a season writer or commentators like yourself to be open minded and less sarcastic of your perceive targets. But in this case you were not. The villager who may have incur your wrapt is place in and among the union of villagers and bashed for crimes only you felt the pain about. I am only expressing my take on the poem. I am sure you willl allow for diverse analysis of it, since that is the essence of dropping it in the public. Another vital area villagers will find discouraging is that, a man of your statue is fit to become a broad base leader, but if your ink depict a villager that tragic way, what hope should they have of Baba salvaging anything for them. The poem is bigger than the few line Baba. Villagers continue to say, the setting was unhelpful. The villager in question may be guilty according to you, since we can only assume here, only you are sure. Is Yahya Jammeh indeed a villager? Are we villagers any more, yourself and all of us absconded villagers. The story continuous. No offense intended. Suntou On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Suntou, > > I am surprised at your interpretation of my poem as an assault on > villagers. I wonder where on earth you got the idea that I am calling all > villagers idiots. Let me just say loud and clear that I am a villager, my > father is a villager, and my mother is a villager. So are all my > grandparents and great grandparents. Indeed, I come from an ancestry of > villagers. That said, I will let you put the pieces together. > > Baba > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 18:40:55 +0000 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: So The Village idoits call for some respect (In Maafanta) > > To: [log in to unmask] > > *The latest Poem of Brother Gallah at Maafanta can be slice in many > different bits. Moreso using poetic license to allow for different > interpretation. Our famous villager is Yahya Jammeh. But this poem is not at > all an affair for Yahya. We the villagers demand that, town folks allow > us the respect we deserve. An end to little assault on villagers. Village > idoit, indeed, they may have read the masters avoid the obvious. treating > light weights issues with magic pens. Indirecting continuously whilst aiming > higher. 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