When you go to International Pancake House and ask fuh Dhal & Roti.
When the only word to describe somebody that can't dance is "Pagaley".
When you know what black sage is.
When you go to school with green mangoes and salt and pepper in your pocket.
When yuh best fren is yuh galfren bruther.
When you spout terms like last lick, anti man, mota bike, sweetie,
patacake, buddy.
When you go to the cake shop and buy salara.
When you refer to all chewing gum as "Chico".
You used to know at least one banna named Reds, or Coolie boy, or Dougla
or Fat Boy, or Buck Boy, or Chinee.
When you know what "gimme lil ting" mean.
When you know the difference between a "ginip" and a "jamoon".
When you know a "cashew" to be a fruit and not a nut.
When you spend Easter Monday flying your kite at the seawall .
Yuh used to run after school fuh buy flutie ,
condensed milk .
Yuh went to school wid at least one girl that had a big batty.
When..your Air Jordan is a yattinboots...
When ya see a drunk man ride he bicycle all the way home from the rumshop
and fall as soon as he reach home.
When you ask for directions and you're told to "go daside and tun lef, dengo pass de coconut tree and jump ovah de trench and yuh reach
If you use the word (prounounced "nah") at the end of most sentences.
"Come nah" "She look nice, nah" "A wah you do deh nah" "How you do, nah"
When you first greet a person with "Good Mornin'/Aftanoon/Night"
If you know that neither "eye pass" nor "fat eye" relate to optometry.
When you find it impossible to explain to colleagues exactly what a labba
is...but you know that you can curry it.
 |
| John Agard |
When you always laugh or suck yuh teeth whenever strangers,(island people
in particular) show you "a river".
When you went to de cane field one hundred times in ya life, but ya didn't
peel the cane with de cutlass, yuh use yuh teeth
You know exactly what "caanta" means.
You know bout Half A Head Man, Dutch Man Pan Eh Horse, Fire Rass, Ole
Higue, And Jingle Lady.
No comments:
Post a Comment