Letter: Kaiso! Kaiso! Vincy Kaiso 2013 Published on June 17 2013 Dear Sir: Well, it’s Vincy Mas time again in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and the calls and emails about the 2013 calypsos start pinging “me” answering machine and inbox. With “me” ears sharply tuned, this year’s crop of social commentaries did not disappoint me. However, I was hoping this year “me” partner “Ras Boo” would have taken the Ex-tempo (the step-up, put on yo big undies, high jump competition) crown. But boy! “Ras Boo” didn’t even make the finals, so he couldn’t do the “Fosbury Flop” that he learned and was practicing to dethrone “Blakey”. Ras Boo, I am thinking about calling our partner Coach Keller and get him to send you a pole vault jump pole. Because that seems like the only way you are going to beat “Blakey” in the step-up, put on yo big undies, high jump competition, “the Ex-tempo”. But, my ghetto brethrens reminded me that “Blakey” was on the bayside, back in the day crafting his pole vault skills with bamboo poles. He learned to pole vault from the best in Bottom Town “Prim,” “Guy Chow,” “Chappell Greg,” and the late “Goo-two teeth”. Boy, pole vaulting may not work, Ras Boo. However, Ras Boo, I know Blakey can’t touch you when it comes to Jouvert costume. I particularly liked last year’s, “Is it Coke or Soap? You decide!” Ras Boo, yo should ah sing bout dat! From the first whistle stops this year, like ah ha fo go in the archives and call on the man “Stinger” with “All yo Stop the Killing, Killing.” Ah know things bad but as “Tattoo” did say “Rodents” in the treasury and the NCB (National Commercial Bank). Hence, the NCB gone! Boy, ah wonder if ah them giant Nutria Rats eat up all the money? Or is it the oversize “Red Rats” Lexi sang about? Either way, it’s all “Rodents”! With the social melee on the way, ah longtime “I-Pa” love “he” kung fu movies, so he come with “Drunken Master” and take the New Song crown. “I-Pa” boy, way yo drinking, “Jack Iron”? Fire (drink) one fo me too boy! Fire one! But “I-Pa” make sure yo ha video this time around, when them police come slap yo again. However, ah couple ah slum men done tell me that can’t happen again. Well, they got the people in SVG bawling because “The Meter Man on the Run” as “Struggler” said. Moreover, Marva relate it to “Ron B” how things tough and she just “Trying to Make Ends Meet.” So much so, she done sell all “she” clothes. Boy! Seems like them “Woodlice in Me Pocket” that “Defoe” was running and screaming about last year hit Marva too! This year, “Defoe” is asking “Why”? Ah see “Short Man” return after making waves last year with his “Sit Down and Wait”. Now, he ha questions for the Commish about morning (AM) or evening (PM). “Is it the AM Coke or the PM Coke?” Or is it the PM Soap? Coke or Soap, it has me confused too! Like “me” partner Ras Boo said last Jouvert, “You decide!” Boy, the “Bad John” kaiso man “Zion-I” is back in the ring after telling you last year how he “Brave”! For 2013, all scoundrels and scallywags be aware, “Zion-I” has uncovered your filthy business. Now, he is telling you plain and flat, “I Singing Bout Dat”! Well as expected, “De Man Age” aka "Mr Age" continues to burn fire and licks with “Dirty-Dirty Character” by exposing “politrickians”. Then “Bump-I” put the hammer right on the nail and went straight to the meat of the matter, “Elie”! Ex-Health Minister “Ces,” wa up this year man? More “Mas in the Hospital” or could I see “Elie” fo Jouvert? Because ole Mas ah Jouvert and in SVG all ah dat ah Mas”! That’s why “I-Mad” lamented “Jumbie Squeezing We”! And “Abijah” concluded there is “A Mockery” in our democracy! Peace and justice and enjoy Vincy Mas 2013. Lenford O’Garro Washington
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:35:59 +0000
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