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RATS ON RAMPAGE (1)

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  THE TIMES WERE TOUGH and this day was particularly rough for me. We had gone to our boss at the end of the day’s work for the week’s wages, as it was the weekend, but he was telling us something about how lack of fuel in the accountant’s jalopy had not let him get to the bank for the money needed to pay us. For a very long time, only the accountant’s car had been on the road. The others – the site engineer, the supervisor and the contractors – had parked theirs. Some masons and menial workers (including me) trekked long distances to work and most were now sleeping on the site to curtail the hassles and exorbitant fares of commuting daily. Everyone’s story was all too familiar – across the length and breadth of a major oil-producing nation, with the status of having its own refineries, there was a scarcity of petroleum products. Those in government thought it was cheaper and wiser to import fuel while the refineries were left to rot. The petrol station owners and attendants, con...
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Update On Dr Fixit (New Version)

 I'm utterly reworking the entire verse with the sole intent of having it from the beginning to the end written in rhyming couplets. Though that was the form I'd wanted to use from the start, based on a complaint from the very first publisher I sent the first three hundred plus stanzas to that the lines were too long, I did break them forcing the rhyming to appear 'scattered' . But I'm now going back to what I had in mind originally. The new version is currently uploading on the blog (drfixitepic.blogspot.com). And there are exciting additions to the old tale. Yeah, if you want to stand in my shoes and understand some of the concepts better as 'Dr Fixit' is a tale built around wildlife (don't forget an army ant is the main character and the core villain is the praying mantis), then you wouldn't mind looking up my videos of real wildlife constantly uploading on my YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@godwininyang).
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A Long Love Song (025 - 038)

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  025 The road ahead is far where I’d join a boat, Hop on a cab, a train and if need be, a plane So the essence of love in places remote And near we would assess, learn and explain;   See if we could separate real from fake And that our thirst eventually we would slake Like with a drink on a journey you make – A break right now nearby I must take.   There’s a log where people rest at a crossroads And a set of three posts people keep their loads.   026 I draw close to the log and sit down But I hear creaks of metals approach me; They’re familiar sound and right up in my crown I needn’t task my brain to tell who that could be.   The tapper emerges into view and I greet him; He’s glad to see me and so gives me a beam. He stops at my front and asks where I’d been; Then asks if it wasn’t me earlier he’d seen.   ‘Well, we met earlier but the light was dim.’ Then my intent straightaway I give to him:   027 ‘I’m going on a long tour, sir, to find out What is l...
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A Long Love Song (011 - 024)

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  011 And some say, to tell the world the time But my instincts tell me, to proclaim His undying love to hen that though in grime He’s made to march her affections to claim   That empty would be life without the chase For the chicks bring happiness to his face. But is it for progeny that lovers embrace So to leave something to them that’s a trace?   I’ve seen animals and humans go to war Over love – can we say to it there’s more?   012 I’d seen two cocks bend to scratch their eyes out; I’d seen two lizards flog mercilessly Themselves with their tails and without a doubt To see who over a harem had supremacy.   So I’d be wrong to say hawks show love To hawks but utterly hate every dove For two male hawks may suddenly act rough To ward off the other taking its trough.   You ward off others to have a chance To love your mate – why the unholy dance?   013 Two lizards by the track with bulging necks ...
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