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VERSES OF CAUTION TO AN AFRICAN GIRL

Listen my dear daughter, to my first song of caution

Earmarked for you my wonderful sire, come and listen,

That tall old man with white hair all over his head

Standing over there is not good; he is gnomish in the mind

Be careful with him, he is not human in the heart

But a mermaid of Yoruba poetry, just like Thespis of Greece

Even the pecuniary psychopomp of Sweden gave him an accolade

His heart is selfishly full of avarice; he wants everything for himself,

Don’t recite him any of your poetry, lest he spells an abyss

Against your juvenile poetic talent, he will fool you with a gift;

A white sheep or a scarlet goat for your birth day anniversary

Please don’t take it or anything else from him, as nothing from him is genuine

But only machinations of evil spell aimed at mahyeming your talent

Finally to decimate your girlhood and life, this is my caution

For you dear little African girl.

 

Listen my dear little daughter, to my second song of caution

That short man in a Muslim gear loafing yonder, is suspect

The Muslim beret on his head is merely a smokescreen to aghastly behaviour

He is in no way an avatar of god of love and humane piety

He is a terrorist working with Boko Haram and Algaeda

He is an Alshabab that is bombing young girls in Mombasa and Nairobi

All over Kenya he has killed the young people; his long egret-white sari is not for holiness,

It is merely a nefarious sanctum of grenades, other tools of work in terrorism trade

His loudly prayers, body movements and pocket bursting monies are only a stunt

To have you kidnapped into death conduit, once you goof to join his courts,

His sanctimony is a total picaresque film, (s)heroes of terror the centerpiece

And thus, this is my caution for you dear little African girl.

 

Listen my dear daughter, to my third song of caution

Those tourists thronging our streets are deadly *** pets, they also skulk ****

Their handsome outlook is not a stamp to any good conscientiousness

They derive pleasure from poverty and *** tourism; they yearn to see a girl in poverty,

Often rarely will they help an African girl, out of milieu of beggarly squalorism,

Instead they go straight for the purse between your thighs,

Regardless of the legacy they leave out of this lewdness, they are showy,

They regret not in their Byronic broadcast of *** and fatherless urchins in the poor streets

Foundation for their further poverty tourism, this is my caution for you dear little African girl.

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alexander-k-opicho
Kenyan
Published
May 26, 2014
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