"bandwagons" poems
Alexander K Opicho
(Eldret, Kenya;[email protected])
Do you remember one era in Kenya?
During the dark days of dictatorship
When Daniel arap Moi
Was the tyrannical president of Kenya
And darkness of leadership
Loomed like the dark clouds of el Niño
When forty district commissioners
Out of the total of forty two were kalenjins?
Whose main work was to spy and terrorize
As the people forlornly groaned under the heavy
Yoke of state terror of tribal torment
When the president claims that
He was not aware of such tyranny,
When we used to sing a lame poem
Of jokoo! Jokoo! Jokoo! Jokoo!
On empty stomachs with no hope of food
No hope of jobs or even education
Street children swelling on the street
In total political nonchalance of arap Moi
As he only gave free milk to his own kalenjin youths
In Kabaraka schools, the Kabaraka school which was
Overfunded by the poor tax payers money,
Please President Uhuru Kenyatta as good as you are
With your dear humane heart of Bantu conscience
As you are armed to teeth with modern education
**** sapiens Gentility and polished diplomacy
Superb in quality of thought and supremacy of choices
The government of Kenya is yours and the people of Kenya
Are your political darlings, true bandwagons for ever
Kindly listen and buy my poemetics, my dear president
Remove Daniel Moi from the state house of Kenya,
Let not Daniel Moi be your adviser
Ignore him and embrace Kenyans
For common future happiness
Even if Daniel Moi is old, the truth is different
He is not a good man, he is full of Machiavelli
His full badness is measured in absurdity
Of terribly and horrendously crashed *** crushed
Testicles of poemcrats and political leaders
Of Kenya of yore and today,
Truth meted in When koigi wa wamwere became
A permanent staff of kamiti maximum prison without pension
Wangari Mathai beaten like an animal in a hunters trap
Ngugi wa Thiong’o jobless and detained without trial
Raila Amolo odinga’s testicles went missing
He looks for them on daily circadian
But once he nears their political pigeonhole
Then elections of the times flops, O! Poor Odinga!
President Uhuru Kenyatta with your suave intellect
You won’t get a pretext to say that
I was not aware or not informed
Please dear darling of the people
The people of Kenya in their 42 tribes
Novate Moi with the people
And your legacy will smile.
Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 8:59 AM UTC
i never knew when forgiveness of ******
deviations equated to
the obscurity of citizen allowances,
whereby i was excused from doing ****
like i was excused from having a conscience
stealing your herd of sheep...
but i guess i must have a medieval mentality,
******** childish, having to interpret
the profanity of the tetragrammaton
with the canonical gospels' acts of dispersion,
you said ****** were akin to
meat cleavers... fair enough...
god forgives me butchering you like you
were forgiven having a frolic in the hay...
and we're all one big happy family...
'cos i swear that's when ambiguity on the dogma
entered and the nadir was expressed:
sin - ****** ambiguity - equated itself
to crime - citizen ambiguity -
you want to put that forth to Buddhist
authority chaining ******** bandwagons of
thieves en route to the Tibetan Vatican?
only so much is allowed,
given you're championing one Jew of your fancy
while giving others the gas-chambers...
ain't it just Prince's 1999... we're gonna party
like it's 19-99.... i think you mistook sin with crimes...
that's my "doctorate" opinion...
you said **** with thieving being synonymous,
Christ was saving Greek intellectual culture
with the pederast **** to boot...
St. Paul was encouraging circumcision,
twat-like people with a statue of Buddha asking
whether head meant the shaved one ******
or whether it meant the prickly one gagged on
was on the cards - goose-pimple **** frostbite...
the moment when the forgiveness of sin
turned into the forgiveness of crime...
hence such ****** freedoms right now,
and a... ah... whatever... of challenged citizenship,
why would i? why would anyone even bother?
**** it, let's go crazy, Las Vegas is waiting for us,
the cowboys will never churn out a Thatcher
to "rule the world".
Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 9:31 PM UTC
In These Days And Times...
It’s Getting HARD To Find...
People On Whom...
You Can TRULY RELY... !!!!!
Because of The Mood...
That’s Now Defining Life... !!!
COMPULSORY Orders...
To... PROTECT Borders... !!!
CONTROLS For Souls.....
Now LOSING HOPE... !!!
Due To LOSING Their Jobs...
And... RISING Costs... !!!!!
So What Have We Got... ???
A... CORONA ROT... !!!
That’s TRULY SHOCKED...
And CLEARLY ROCKED...
The Lives of... MANY...
That Are Now UNSTEADY... !!!
In THESE Days And Times...
It’s Now... HARD To Find...
... TRUE Peace of Mind...
Which Is Why I Write Rhymes...
To... STOP My Brain...
From... Going INSANE...
In These CRAZY DAYS... !!!!!
Because Its All A Haze...
And Now The Type of Maze...
That May Well Leave Some...
Finding Themselves STUCK...
With NO Place To RUN... !!!
It’s... FAR FROM FUN...
Watching Governments...
Now DESTROY Freedoms... !!!
Because It Now Seems...
That They Want REGIMES...
That ALLOW Their Teams...
To DICTATE What’s Seen...
And... WHO Can Speak... !!!
But In Truth Isn’t That...
How Its... ALWAYS BEEN... !!!
Within Their So Called... “ Societies “...
So Now Theories... About CONSPIRACIES...
Are Those That Feed What MANY BELIEVE...
But The Sheople’ OUTNUMBER...
Those Who Refuse To Play The Roles...
of... DUMB And DUMBER... !!!
When It Comes To The Vibes...
of These Days And Times...
Where Racism IGNITES...
Like... DYNAMITE... !!!
And Is Causing FIGHTS...
All Because of Black Lives...
That Apparently MATTER...
Once They Have... DIED... ?!?
So Now There Are Countries...
That Are... FAR And WIDE... !!!!!
Where The Race Discussion...
Is... Reaching Minds...
Who Preferred To Stay Blind...
To How Ignorance Functions...
And STILL Affects Lives...
WAY BEYOND Police Lines... !!!!!
It’s... ALWAYS BEEN...
What Black People Have Seen...
But Suddenly... APPARENTLY...
It Requires MORE TALK...
Than... EVER BEFORE... ?!?
But In ALL HONESTY...
It’s Beginning To BORE... !!!
ALL This TALK of CHANGE...
From... FAMOUS Names...
Who’ve Played The Game...
of... Waiting For A Train...
Or... BANDWAGONS...
For Them To JUMP ON... !!!
When They’ve Been...
... " Playing Along "...
To Get To... The TOP...
of These Industries...
Where Racism BREATHES...
Quite... EASILY...................... !!!
As LONG As THEY...
Were RECEIVING MONEY... !!!
There’s MUCH HYPOCRISY...
In Times Like These... !!!
So People Should Read...
... BETWEEN The Lines... !!!
BEFORE They Find Themselves ALIGNED...
With The Types of... Figures...
Who Are Really... SHAPE SHIFTERS... !!!!!
Or In Other Words... GRIFTERS...
Who Are Known To Be TRICKSTERS... !!!
And... Societal WINNERS...
Who Are The WORST Kind of SINNERS... !!!
Sitting At... DINNERS...
With The Type of Thinkers...
Who Prefer To Wear BLINKERS...
Than To SEE THE TRUTH...
About... RACIST Moves...
And The Type of ISSUES...
That Now... Confuse... ?!?
That Are Fuelling DARK MOODS... !!!
It’s A... " WHOLE NEW WORLD "...
That Now... UNFURLS... !?!
And Has REARRANGED...
How The Game of Life...
Will Now Be... Played... !!!
Which Is Why I Find...
Myself Inclined...
To Sit And Write Rhymes...
About What Life’s Now Like...
In....
“These Days And Times”....
Aug 20, 2020
Aug 20, 2020 at 12:51 AM UTC
the tattoos they got
in love and in anger
have turned to cartoons
not warnings of danger
Pete Townsend was singing
about my generation
who are now on Zimmer frames
and hormone replacement
the kids were alright
in the cafés downtown
where the little blue pills
went around and around
now mellowed stagnated
judgemental outdated
by the new youth culture
that’s moving and shaking
jumping on bandwagons
and acting like tarts
they’re all ******* green
with no purple hearts
but the culture it ended
the scooters all scrapped
and none of them realised
that The Who they just rocked
Apr 6, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 at 4:33 AM UTC