On September 7th, 2004, a monster called Hurricane Ivan plannassed Grenada. Years before, in 1955, Hurricane Janet wrecked havoc on the Spice Isle . Today I write about Ivan in our Kinda talk. Hurricane Ivan Ah Want to Talk to You! Ivan, you wretch, you son of ah gun, you good for nothing scamp! Now tell me something: Ah big maco Jumbie monster like you chose poor little Grenada to make all yuh commess and ruction? You lick down mango trees, fat pork trees, bluggoe trees, gospo trees; all kind ah trees. Dem fellas cried when you pelt down the bob bon day trees. Yuh ha cuss! You wiped out all the zootie, stinging nettles and purgatay. Manicou had to run for cover. Dem stray dogs on the beach hauled dey tail from the sand. Even the Zandolee had to dash away and hide in ah hole. There were no bushes left to sting Grenadians on their bam bam. Not even the sand box tree you left to gee dem shittings. You left no tree for people to hide and mess when they got loose bowels. Lawd, Ivan, you din have to do that. After you passed, the people had to ketch dey rass to make ah panquaye. You mash up so much roofs they called you Roofus. You removed all the roofs so people could look up in the sky and see dem stars. Yuh put so much pressure on dem, they saw stars. They moved around in ah daze as if they had lite. Starlite! You ring up dem galvanize like clothes. People could not even find their clothes pins. You knocked down all the remaining pit latrines. People had to number two in the open air. You even break up the Stadium in Queen’s Park. You doh even like sports. You bugger you! You put dem big trees in the middle of the road so no motor car could pass. Not even ah donkey cart cuddah pass. You put dem trees dey for Grenadian men to force and lift and get the embarrassing ma koo koo. You loved dat, eh, Ivan? No roofs on dem fellas heads and big ma koo koo for them to drogue. Dey dragged big wood in the road, strained themselves and got the ma koo koo. You made it easier for Grenadians to peep. You heard the calypsonian singing about Grenadians peeping so you pelt down all dem trees to make Grenadians peep even more. They din need spying glass. People, who used to ketch dey nen nen to maco in Willis, cuddah peep from all up dey and see who drinking rum in River Road. They could see who bathing by the river under the Green Bridge. You turned the Spice paradise into ah peeping paradise. Some people never knew they had neighbors till you lick down dem trees behind their houses. O, Gawd, Ivan, why you did dat? After you made your mischief, the people overseas were generous and they sent all kinda tings, including smoke herrings, saltfish and pig snout to Grenada. They also received an abundance of beans. Dem tings came from Trinidad, America, Canada, England and various other places. But the Grenada people had to wait till the breadfruit trees grew back so dey could make dey favorite oildown. You knew how Grenadians loved their oildown. It was imported beans you wanted dem to eat so dey could walk and leggo wind ah hundred and fifty miles per hour like the winds you had. You din have to do dat Ivan, you too damn worthliss! You lucky ah din ketch you. It was two planasse ah wuddah put in yuh backside! Anthony Wendell DeRiggs
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:51:50 +0000
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