Here are some musings by a Twitter friend, poet and blogger. It’s an overview of the state of Jamaica, in the wake of President Obama’s visit – starting off with the President’s greeting at yesterday’s Town Hall meeting at the University of the West Indies… “Waah Gwaan?” (This may be rather hard to read for my non-Jamaican readers, but see how you get on with it!)
Waah gwaan Jamaica,
The place where wi heroes park up,
Fi years it look closed and dark up,
When di foreigners lay wreath,
It get spruce up and look neat,
Den back to di dutty and mark up,
Di youths ago need more teaching,
Dem ah try fi pree pure bleaching,
Nuff man nuh really wah crabs,
Vendor dem nuh play grab bags,
When yuh hear wi talk bout corn,
Wi nuh always mean boil or roast,
Or money fi pop off and boast,
Youths stop seh dem grace man,
Artiste ah style Pres as waste man,
Talk and overstep dem place man,
Big up to POTUS known as Barack,
That’s not just because him black,
Seems him deh pan di right track,
Powerful, but calm and laid back,
Wi know book by Steve Harvey
But don’t know nutten bout Garvey,
When di club cork or di party ram,
No…
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