Godwin Inyang's Blog, page 8

  4261‘All right,’the praying mantis said, nodding for long,‘yourhaughtiness this fight would just prolong.You thinkthe superficial wisdom from tortoiseis all youneed in life? Well and fine,’ he did hiss.‘You’veraised the tempo of your macabre song.We’d dancebut we’d soon see who would run.’‘Jah!’ I sayand move forward but he flies off.I say: ‘Whydon’t you wait and let’s

 4251I’m excitedwith the flow of my thoughts.At thedistance I see squirrels snip some nuts.I whistledown to a sentry who rushes up.I tell himto pass on the message that all turn upat theassembly ground in a moment.In my mind’seye, I see everyone make a movementthere and Iget down and strut to the podiumto deliver aspeech without any tedium.‘Thehoneymoon is over, guys,

4230I copied andcopied and when my hand felt a cramp,I letCrookedmouthit take my place and scrammedto the looand then returned in a jolly moodto drink thechilled wine and eat the sumptuous food.All thewhile, I hovered to see if my co-scribedid well aswe didn’t need a thing to retype.From awindow near the balcony, I sawPatienceitwatching us – I’d noticed this before:she

 4220My euphoriawas tinged with irritation.The fivechaps left a pain in my digestion.I wishedthey had returned first to their folksbeforeventuring out to be top blokes.Like brokenspokes they hampered our smooth ride;I wished Icould see them and give them a real chide.If they werewith us, we would be joggingall the wayto Antburg and cheering.Maybe I wasthe only one