The Hustling
He had shifty eyes, a face as drawn and narrow as an old man’s even though he was only in his twenties. He seemed to be the type who was always in trouble. Johnson sighed and rolled his eyes. He didn’t not like the looks of this guy but he knew right away that dealing […]
What A Show Down Ina Di Bed Room
WHAT A SHOW DOWN INA DI BED ROOM Mi seh what a condition Di other night deh Di man get bex And wah come fight mi Mi look pon him hard And ask him seh A wah do yu man A tru mi go out Satdeh night deh Di man jus kiss him teet an […]
Infatuation
He told her goodnight but she barely muttered a reply. Marie couldn’t help but suck her teeth at the dirty pair of gloves sticking out of her husband’s back pocket. “What?” he asked “Nutting man” she snapped and gave him a dirty look when he turned his back and went to take his nightly shower. […]
If You Could
If you could return to some time in your pastAnd relive those days anewWhich would you choose, I dare to askAnd just what would you do If you could go back and do the thingsThat time did not allowAnd change the things that you did wrongCould you, would you and how Just how many things, […]
She Did Not Want To Go
The clouds looked like cotton balls. Big fluffy cotton balls that she could run through and throw up in the air if she could go out there. Suddenly she had an urge to unbuckle her seatbelt, stroll down the aisle as if going to the bathroom or to stretch her legs, then, when she got […]
People Know You Are Jamaican If…
How do people know if you are Jamaicans? Check your answers to these questions to see if someone can pick you out as a “Jamaican”. People know you are Jamaican if ………. You can distinguish between “cocoa-tea” “bush-tea” and”green-tea”. When someone sympathizes with you, you comment “Yuh tink seh it easy?” You point with your […]
Jamaican and Foreign – April 1998
Jamaican and Foreign – Patois Translation Wat a gwann mi frens, mi is on di war path, dis time arround han mi jus waan fi get som ting hawfa mi chess. Nung yu all know me is a bawn Jamaican, living in Jamaica and wurking in Jamaica. Dat mek mi…pure Jamaican. It like wen smaddy […]
New Years Resolutions – January 1998
New Years Resolutions – Patois Translation Well di New Years is ere again and nerely all a wi mek som pramiss har adder. Wi all nung seh a pramiss is a comfat tu a fule, soh wen wi mek all dem New Years pramise deh, wi really a fule wi self. Som sey dem a […]
Kept Woman – October 1997
Kept Women – Patois Translation “So shall you share all that he possess, By having him, Making yourself no less. -Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare Yu mus a wander by nung ow mi seem soh verse pan di relationship business, well nat ongle dat mi ave one helleva experience, but mi read nuff, people […]
Stray Dawgs- September 1997
Stray Dawgs – Patois Translation “For every action there is a reaction” Di same cannat bi said in matters of di hart, far it nat necessarily one equal reaction. Som man wen dem ere ooman sey dem a ole dawg, dem tek offense tu it. But mi dere, a soh we ooman talk all di […]