Thanks Mboge, and yes I have strong views on the dispute at the core of this poem LJDarbo ________________________________ From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 12:37 Subject: Re: [G_L] THE LAMENT LJD, Nice one, indeed. Mboge On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 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 > > > > > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤