Hip! Hip! Hooray!/
Hip! Hip! Hooray!/
I sing UBUNTU/
Kum Kum Massa eh!/
Ooo Kum Kum!/
I sing Ujumaa!/
I sing Harambe!/
I sing Masakhane!/
Ooo Shosholoza!/
Ooo Shosholoza!/
Ooo Shosholoza!/
Ai shosholoza!/
Ai Shosholoza!/
I am no arbiter of divine designs/
Offspring of universal symbiosis/
UBUNTU, my credo/
Hip! Hip! Hooray!
Hymn to inmates/
Of global dungeons/
Hip! Hip! Hooray/
Hip! Hip! Hooray!/
Homage to graduates of Robben Island/
And to inmates of Guantanamo/
And of prisoners without a crime at Kondengui!
Hip! Hip! Hooray!
Hymn to anonymous inmates at Kirikiri/
This world’s a donjon/
Where the innocent/
Cohabitate with miscreants/
And moral bankrupts dine with holier- than- thous!/
I wanna say what I gotta say/
No punk’s gonna/
Tell me to shut up!
This underworld’s sick/
Deep in damned shit/Quagmire/Mire!
Merde et merde alors!/
Gives me the creeps!
This joint’s gone bonkers/
Dirtballs/ hoodlums/scallywags/
Riff-raff/ nitwits/ thingamabobs/
In all nooks and crannies/
In this godforsakent abbot/
Wheelers and dealers are legion/
Taking hostage the innocent in their land of birth!/
Land of the great/ No Man’s Land/
Darn assholes/cocky self-servers/
Liars!/ Thieves! Double talkers!/
To hell with moral bankrupts!/
Au diable! Au diable!
Que le diable les emporte!/
A jilted lover storms into
His wolowoss' apartment/
Pulls a trigger/
Poom! Poom!
She drops in a pool of blood!
Pandemonium!
A cuckolded Sango/
Charges into his nyango's love nest/
Armed to the teeth/
Clobbers his wife and carnal thief to death/
Chaos! Sauve qui peut!/
High schooler flunks her final exam/
On account of binge drinking and drug use/
Coupled with unbridled fornication/
Takes entire faculty hostage/
There’s crossfire/ fusillage!
Fatal shots resonate /
Sauve-qui-peut général![i]
Victims drop dead galore/ Partout!
Gun mania/
Our stock- in- trade.
New credo/
I flex my muscles/
I prime my revolver/
And pull the trigger/
Poom! Poom!/
Foes drops dead/
In a pool of blood/
Does that resolve the problem?/
Humankind is deranged!
Very sick, indeed/
I hear the voice of reason/
I listen to silenced voices in the wilderness/
Crying for gun control/
In benighted no man's land/
Who will do it/ Who will stop the demented ARN blood vampires/
Wizards and witches/ Damned blood-drinking assholes!/
God go punish dem/ Nyamfuka dem!
[Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta (copyright 2022)]
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.