The Gamble : Memoirs Of An Illegal Alien Part 29
It was 7 months since I sent the money and my Jamaican passport to Charlie for the ‘stamp’. The stamp was the one INS places in your passport once you are approved for a green card. I would have the ability to get a new social security card, apply for citizenship and travel. It was […]
Exercise
People always wonder how come Jamaicans look so fit. I have two answers, the transportation and the education system. Wha mount a running people haffi do fi get a bus fi go a school or work ANYBODY would a fit ! After yuh run almost half a mile an still doan get inna nuh drive […]
Di Bible in Patois
Jus di oda day some highty tighty edicated people translate di Bible into patois. Mi understan if dem trying to increase the numba of di yardies who get fi read di Holy book. Nevadeless, all a de reverence mus gaan, cause when we ready fi chat de patois it just sound RAW. So jus imagine […]
For Birdie (My Sister)
Almost fifty years goneAnd still I think of youA beautiful flower crushedBeneath the heel of neglectAnd lack of nourishment I was but a helpless childYet I still feel guiltAnd, yes, shame, that my smallhands could not save youThat my love could not keep you here I strain to remember your voiceI cannot hear youBut I […]
Love And Marriage
To you whom Love has brought togetherLet no one, no circumstanceno jealousy, no misunderstanding,rent asunder May your days together befilled with wonder and with loveAnd each morning be a new awakeningto the joys and challenges of life As you bask in the warmth of thesunlight at your doorso too hear the music of the raindropson […]
Anancy Days
I remember those Anancy Dayswhen the cunning spider and his wily waysfilled our bedtime reading“One more story, Mother please,”would be our final pleading Using brains to get his way was Anancy’s big funA trickster of the first degree he was surely onebut he would never think to use rockstone, knife or gun Some say those […]
Pressure : Memoirs Of An Illegal Alien Part 28
Sherri-Ann gave me an ultimatum. I was either going to give her the money for an abortion or she divorcing her husband and I had to marry her. This is how it was with upper-class Jamaicans. If you get an uptown girl pregnant you had to marry her. This would be a little complicated with […]
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Turn Back The Hands Of Time : Memoirs Of An Illegal Alien Part 27
Illegal Alien – A funny thing happened after my grandmother’s death. For the next 8 months life got better. It was almost like my grandmother’s death gave me a new life. I got a job working in the stock room at BJ’s wholesale club. They were very flexible with my schedule. I was going to […]