Thanks Bailo and my regards to you I'm unconvinced by the argument that our parents and children have purer inclinations and ordinary wish not to have their pristine space invaded by expletives. As you know, Western politicians grandstand on all kinds of issues including the generally harmless hoodie dress code. Surprise surprise a former UK Home Secretary used her parliamentary expenses to pay for blue/pornographic movies. Who would have thought the purer high and mighty like a UK Home Secretary would spend her time in such manner. The simple point is that human beings are not fundamentally dissimilar from a natural perspective, and I am not unduly bothered about language against the powerful wicked. As earlier contended, my sympathies are solidly with the powerless victims of brutality in The Gambia, and I entertain no squeamishness about how people express themselves. LJDarbo ________________________________ From: bailo jallow <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 15:40 Subject: [G_L] Fw: Re: [G_L] THE LAMENT LJD, A nice poem, relevant as well. Bailo From: Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> >>Subject: [G_L] THE LAMENT >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Date: Wednesday, 13 February, 2013, 12:18 >> >> >>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] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤