[While I'm on the subject of poetry, here's Part 1 of a nostalgia-inducing beauty by Guyanese poet Imran Khan. The poem is titled, "Do You Remember?" Enjoy!]
Do you remember
A thousand stingin mosquito bite
While coil smoke chokin yuh whole night
Not sleepin under jug lamp light
Early mornin fowl cock fight
Do you remember
Sweepin bottom house with pointer broom
Wedding day shoe hiding of the bridegroom
Nastyin yuh school clothes an thinking yuh life doom
Playin ketcha when is full moon
Do you remember
After school water fetchin
Saturday mornin donkey ridin
Backdam fish ketchin
Plant waterin of the kitchen garden
Do you remember
Yuh lip pasting after eatin pepperpot
Playin cricket on the beach with coconut branch bat
And the village elder feather in he felt hat
Do you remember all ah dat?
Do you remember
Big big neighba cuss out
And the short cut rout
Drinkin home made stout
Ol people telling yuh big people yuh must'n doubt
Do you remember
Drinkin mauby an cane juice
Goin school with yattin boots
Pullin cassava root by root
Three piece fish tail suit
Do you remember
Evening time road corner joke
Black black fire side smoke
Cook-up rice, roti an curry and garlic pork
Runnin home de rain mek 'yuh whole skin soak'
Do you remember
Waitin fuh owara fall
Phoulrie, black puddin, souse an egg ball
Do you remember it all?
Want tek a lime pun de seawall?
