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
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Subject: So The Village idoits call for some respect (In Maafanta)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. I say, respect to villagers.And so the tears flowed….by Baba Galleh Jallow
And so the tears flowed
For the death of the children
Conceived in the throes of anger
Born into the arms of fear
Strangled by the claws of evil
Clad in garments of prickly good!!
And so the tears flowed
At the demise of honest thought
At the rape of the people’s intellect
The bastardization of love and piety
The ascendancy of slimy rot
Donning the robes of high order!!
And so the tears flowed
At the passing of the truthful bard
At the era of the village idiot
Turned saint
At the specter of the mean village crook
Turned champion defender of the poor!!
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