A tired day
Yesterday I walked to the tax office
Not that I had any business there
But the woman next door said it only took her 15 minutes
To go there.
It took me two hours going there and back.
Tired today watching cartoon a man was knocking
On the door of a suburban house pressing the doorbell
selling vacuum cleaners
A beautiful woman opened the door
My doorbell was ringing too; it was the waterman
And by the time I had paid him and taken the water
Into the kitchen, I was too late to see what had happened.
I like a cartoon; the impossible becomes doable.
The ship with for cranes is still at the anchorage perhaps
They can’t get a master.
Should I offer my service
Oh streaking man on epic sea;
bold waterman stoked up on fear,
your blue room wall calm lunacy,
oh streaking man on epic sea.
In magic, bound up ecstasy,
your arching nemisis comes near,
oh streaking man on epic sea;
bold waterman stoked up on fear.
KITTIWAKE
CH: Kittiwake, kittiwake Naija. 2ce
Old man na snake
Young man na fake
Looking for what to rake
CH: Kittiwake...Naija. 2ce
Overtake all overtake
My people awake
Make no mistake
The blows not for our sake
The reason for this quake
Is just the biggest cake
CH: Kittiwake... Naija. 2ce
Overtake all overtake
Waterman for shortcake
Rockman for cheesecake
Water or rock for pancake
Tribe is just the mandrake
Awake, my people, awake
CH: Kittiwake...Naija 2ce
Before, before na handshake
Now e kom be headshake
The headache na the hotcake
Earthquake,Seaquake, Skyquake
Wetin sef no go quake?
CH: Kittiwake...Naija 2ce
COUNSELOR COWARD
So there was I a fresh new face ready to oversee the law
I had the mandatory briefcase, with two pencils and a Waterman pen
I’d studied long and hard for years but my future had one huge flaw
And it’s all because I’m more sensitive than most and/or all men
My co-council and deity du jour was almost as eager as I
We faced the prosecuting attorney with swords of silver hone
I felt as if I were an eagle and I had finally learned to fly
But what I knew turned into aspects of the job I hadn’t previously known
Jury selection was over and it was time for the D.A.‘s openings speeches
As my cohort and I glanced at their evidence of exhibit “A” through “L”
As my sleepless client remained, for obvious reasons, speechless
The jury filed in and it was obvious they were going to condemn this man to Hell
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