la cucaracha

June 19, 2008 at 2:59 · Filed under Africa

As I’ve been in meetings in Dar es Salaam and haven’t much to offer in the way of experiences, I’ll post this (bad) poem I wrote a couple of months ago in Freetown (Sierra Leone) after a skirmish with an unwelcome visitor to my bathroom tub.

Kakroch

copper warrior, iron armor

i slap at you with a mat, a slipper,

you demonstrate fear to pacify

and hide just inside the drain

waiting

 

robert e lee of the bathroom, the better general

destined to lose by forces beyond you

 

i respect but fear

bully but am powerless to vanquish

bra kakroch

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