The drunk geezer
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
The old man trots, traipses
Then stumbles on the pines
With a squash and a squeak
He wriggles his bag of bones in pain
Fast like a snail he wakes
Collects himself and staggers
He misses a sooty spider by inches
Which skulks back into its labyrinth
He ambles along the dusty road
Murmuring and grunting
Like an old Luhyia dame
Grinding maize on stone
He thinks not but Ingokho
The sweet meat of hens
And the wings, hoping to fly
With that he jumps feebly
Splash! into the gully!
That empties the faulty sewage
At Mr. Mukhwana’s compound
Rumored it cannot serve his ten wives
The old man gulps and splutters
And a trail of a thick smudge
Form on the side of his fleshy lips
He lays his head out of water
Into dreamland!
© GIDRAF MWANGI
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Submitted by GIDRAF on May 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAXX AAAX XXXX XAXB BCXA ACAX C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 139 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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