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I Don't Know What to Call This...So don't Ask!

Caveat Emptor: Surrealism Yesterday my 'home' was invaded and I'm still trembling and cowered from the 'events'. I knew the 'attack' would happen but I did not know the when, the where, & the how...and as I stand shell-shocked I cannot make out what was nor what is... It's like a painting  left in the rain, that you come to meet after a shower, still dripping a blur of colors...the canvass dully showing the faintest of signs of having hosted something  just so recently which cannot be fathomed and what existed beforehand which can never be retrieved. I write these words first to express my mourning of the member(s) of the household, cut down, disintegrated, wiped away. Still some lie disfigured, either agonizing and reliving the horror in utter pain and unending torture and/or silently slipping away to join the list of the departed. Someone sent this to me: "...let's plant trees brother; let's have groves of fr...

Hausa Man Why Now? by Haidar Wali

I have been getting incessant complaints about you and the thing is so disturbing! You used to be the pride of the pack... Alas the following are the accusations leveled against you. I didn't want to pass sentence on you - so as not to be unjust - until I heard your side of the story. But let me go ahead and recite the 10-count charges as follows: 1. Hausaman, you have been charged as the person with the highest number of divorces both singly and severally (sometimes you used to say: I divorce you one hundred times thus even exceeding the maximum allowable three-3 times). 2. Hausaman, you are also said to be the person with the highest frequency of producing divorcees. In fact it has become a case study and you are being considered for the Nobel Divorce Prize! 3. Hausaman, you are also said to be the person with the highest number of packs & armies of little children with runny noses, bare-feet, and torn/disheveled clothes on their bodies. They even c...