Embracing the crocodile on a move

THE DIARY OF A COVID-19 WALKER

Part 188 “Embracing the crocodile on a move”

It was in or around 1990 when i dreamed,
That my down hair had overgrown,
Yet had no scissor,
As clippers were in the preserve hands,
Of Kinyozi, anyway!
I trembled thrice like a pig in the cold wind!
 
Then I dreamed again wetting the anthill,
That tall slippery anthill,
Where we played gogolo,
Only to find the whole bed badly wet!🤦🏾🤦🏾
My brother pushed me off the edge,
Falling like an empty steel tin,
Cling cling! In my teen!
Was i seventeen?
Haza nkatiiina!
Yes, natya!
Bikila mariya!
 
Again i dreamed of my self riding,
Our humpy bull, Rugondo,
Only to wake, and little cousin,
Rubombo was crying,
Was this the bull?
I then had some apparition,
A monkey chased me,
Biting me endlessly,
While i yelled…🤦🏾!
 
Then i dreamed of Kamugyene,
The boy with long bow legs,
Hunting rabbits,
Chasing and chasing,
As our dog Kakwitsi,
Hauled insults onto the hunter and the hunted..
Often, it chased the night dancers,
With its dull comrades like mucunkuni…
I never liked dull hounds,
For we fed them wasps to wasp them-up😅😅
 
More often, teenage dreams,
Were like embracing the crocodile,
On the move,
Again, like Kafiti, the village wag😊
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