simple farmer

To say guyana is a strange place would be putting it mild
very mild
turned on tv to see what’s going on in chicken in every pot country and ran head on into a ppp infomercial on channel 9 of all places
i generally watch tv with the volume down but could pick up the unmistakable tinkling of a steel band in the background teasing out terry gajraj guyana baboo
but as we meander deeper into the swamp i gave the volume a little touch cause am almost certain i just heard the lady announcer say president doctor bharrat jagdeo
that’s the joker with more honorary doctorates than anyone could remember and on that they call him docteur
no close ups
lots of aerial shots of massive developments
rice field, beach, leather back turtle, leguan beach, a rice field, shrimp drying on zeelugt seewall* et cetera et cetera
and not to leave out the fish farm owned by a well known cocaine trafficker
then suddenly it stopped abd a message popped up
a kids tv production copyright 2015
and without warning
snagglepuss in major operation
shit just switched to cartoons

so 5 months after elections ppp infomercials are airing on tv
the more things changer the closer we drift to revolution
rejoice
i said it dot com

*couple yrs ago students of zeelugt high school won the science fair with a shrimp drying contraption. their explanation was shrimp drying on the seawall stink up their school all day and is a public health disaster. few years later shrimps, or strimpse in guyana lingo, still drying pon zeelugt seewall and still stinking up de place