The Pirates and Lurid Paupers

The Pirates and Lurid Paupers By Olarotimi Olakunle ONAYEMI A. The Gospel According to Smallliens The more you look the less you see The more you think the less you know The more you try the more you accomplish Paddy Mi, when you get there Ma gbagbe awon ti Las Giddy - Don't forget the People of Las Giddy. You know we tried - If you call this trying what would you call whiling away the timing. In the achievements of souls on Mother Earth Smallliens fucked up and I don't want to think its size, yeah fucking big fuck up huge fuck up. These universities are an eye sore in the universe, so is everything With a touch of Small Liens. Real dirty second class like no-class University's fiftieth class is higher than our standard and our professors can't mix chemicals Nor lay claims for real in local or international academia because we Know we never had education nor standard, again. Broken hearts attract pity even to itself and by itself and if it's the broken heart not of love But of hatred of successive governments for the people en mass, the masses. Wow, true talk? I say everything we have that's original is second hand and we wonder or you wonder for us about the usefulness of our brains and lifetimes propped up by Asian Tigers. When we even come to supporting the continuation of government considering the worst anomaly in ancient and modern times where ages pass Small Liens like dogs with tongues hanging out in the daily heat and humidity - the difference is not even known nor clear to those who know - then I said we must respect the local, state and federal governments because they were in control on the days we were born, if not how would we even grow up in the first place and become aware enough at length to say they are wanting in both growing up and breeding... That it's high time we eliminate development from our vocabulary. If not, why not. I often come to places where I commend my country I come more often than not to places where the government must be condemned And made to pay reparations to us as locals before asking for theirs and ours From the colonial government gone for good. Biting the finger that fed you? Enough Is enough if this is our standard of living. If you have any contrary opinions it's obvious you are not from my country, so face your own country issues where the rich like you all better since we are on the lowest rung of the elevation, motivation and satisfaction ladder in this world. That's why any judgement must consider people who have or live in Las Giddy. You know it's not easy. The surplus we generate is waste, the inside of the streets are standard ghettos with brilliant estates for the living and the dead. Mom said don't bury me there. It worst for the disabled where albinos and the lame suffer endlessly for nothing, leaving us to wonder if this is a generational government goitre defying it's medicine made of the latest equivalent of its kind in the HIV positive and AIDSyndrome where all things being equal for the media and the education sectors within the private sector the results were all zeros for 50years. Who said we no get... Government? II. Word for word as heard in Small Town No Light Life Continues On top of the quest I launched to quench the smell in town Using kerosene to diffuse the job of bleach and dettol-like disinfectants. Afterall, kerosene used to do the work of indigestion and anti-biotics, Though I advised people to use it solely for its high decibels in odor non-toxic. At least you won't smell the shit u met in the toilet bowl till u finish adding ya own. Then he said the ultimate of the day, in Small Town being the domain Of his physical logic and thought using the people inside of course : If you see these men coming, Wole Soyinka or Kofi Annan and Emeka Anyaoku When Obasanjo or Mobutu is approaching you, you don enter stardust via starstruck. If you hear their spoken English and watch their way of life in texts u read Ol' Boy! They tell the President of your country what to do. What do you mean? Then Prime Minister David Cameron twitted "we must listen to the experts... " As in word for word "We should listen to experts when they warn us of the dangers to our economy of leaving the European Union" Just keep thinking we are in deep shit and it's going down the way we had it From forebears of nonsense with a tinge of salt Even if the Cognac goes down on ice Even if the fish comes up with rice And in mythology Amaka - Yam flour paste - came down from heaven with stock fish tied to Its Feet That the show goes to the workers big and small in Chop I Chop Town. Where does clout take Smallliens? Iii This is where we can fulfil our dreams In faithfulness to ourselves Of our prowess in sex and the highlife Of our damned academia existing in solo on other climes Of our determination by word of mouth alone Of our dismay in other tribes, just wondering where that came from Of the proliferation of jaundice and hepatitis outside hypotheses Of selection among the bad habits from other climes Of belief in the essence of make believe leaving true talk Of what can we stand, what can't we stand on all stands Of the loss of power from the loss of knowledge Of using defeat-totale as the excuse of staying away across the oceans Of overseas, as if that was not what was warnfully woefully warmfully Meant for us to do in donts. IV. I will install you in work and money Shake off the scare of international travel all classes The moment you are waiting for is here Starting from now we all get IDs and other forms of identification We will let the mafia and 419 do their jobs as they can't be routed And moreso only greedy and avaristic people fall their victims. Most of the time we will be on a roster of division of labour The police and government officials can do their work Change your stuff at The National Assembly Or is it a crime to standard books and protocols for drivers license? So it's ideal to have riders permit and not the license. Ok Sir, since this is an Upton Sinclair Revival With Credence Clear Waters hosting Muddy Waters, Roger Waters, Feller Waters aka Fela Kati. We can't give up anymore, you can agree with us. You can sound the gong and the Spirit of God will be happy. V. Welcome to Bigliens You are not disputing this one Since it's The Geneva Contrat Social ala Jean-Jacques Rousseau! Ok? Welcome to Bigliens again My People We will never forgo this one, nor reject it. You no hear wetin Dem talk? Say Naija go dey use Swiss Style! Egbe! Omo? Charlie Himself, His Royal Highness will land To change our wardrobes and the cabinet itself Sterling Silver and Gold on Sportswears Sterling Education as of right now Jobs everywhere and so much to do Just Like That Just because we watch the development of the child to adulthood Change nappies, change pants with standard sanitary? Humidity gives way via air-conditioning Rolling in our culture of visiting Mama Put and Jedi in-between Fucking Clean Master and Mistress lifestyle. Nothing will make us part from this path. VI. Refrain From understanding the Gospel According To Smallliens and Bigliens Go and write a gospel eliminating sorrows and building joy and peace. In The Spirit of The Pity of O Pity Pity and Peer Gynt In The Spirit of Charles Bukowski in That Post Office In The Spirit of Ngugi wa Thiong'O in The Petals of Blood In The Spirit of Charles Baudelaire in The Flower of Bad Things Ok In The Spirit of Jamboree in The Redefinition of Everything That we cease begging from ourselves when the rules of getting in is Millions apar From the whole budget of the family else where in Small Ville. Big. VII. I've been to Timmy Ville in Swissland I want something good for you Cleanliness is next to Godliness And So many place for Geneva dey Clean especially Colony. Even all that glittered was not gold It passes for human habitation verbale et venal Luxe Genevesus toujours marrand Plus Gland tu rappelle du mes affaires contre l'etat Pour les herbes du Provence Chez vous vous ne le touche pas C'est ne pas vrai mec. VIII Lurid in this context can be taken to Lou Reed and Mark Knopfler In lurid detail as in they are paupers like every one on Earth That God Pass every body and are Pirates, if not You and I wouldn't know them both The inclusion of Tim McGraw and Janis Joplin Is sadder than the psychedelic detail The essence of psychedelism being constant Proven, Evasive and Constant as in Noel Constant de Geneve Whoever as in Lie doesn't believe in The Spirit of Soup Kitchens Wouldn't know The Book The Imperative of Africa In working for work and catch the results in the harvest Like food for tired souls of whatever kind or sort From Europe there's an example but that doesn't mean it's not a list Which includes your beloved country like beloved Africa We seem alike in never yet torn ourselves up and upside Which has its own meaning too feller IX Now that I know that even perfection doesn't natter Imagination tells you there's no way everyone will strive for it Like us You can promise us Yeah What's in this New Deal? If that's too much to ask jeez the deal. X Our Smallliens Arena and Landscape na ghetto-confirm We strive for less poverty-stricken popukaces In colder climes well-receptive of African habits It clearly melts with that as in chocolate babies. XI Outta here comes the slow thought Without lifting a finger it hopes in The justification of its philosophy Based entirely or in parts on the second coming. XII This narrator is a part of that group because he thinks there's no better group Than God's Own Group XIII The 13th has connotations but we expelled them just for you. Expel them yourself too Easy E Laziness is still a bad thing and a government which condones it is culpable. If it's too much to develop Africa Mother Africa Mama Afrika Leave it as you no like better thing better yanah best yansh ever. Naija yansh, soldier go, soldier come politics land money fly We want standard ni! XIV Professors access professor Access to Western Congress is condotional You have to loose your seat and your mafiosi-styled caucus in this party to enter here. He Don Tay Wet Yansh Dey For Back. A my face dry, One Love.