Oyile Javan

Twilight Friday Just received my paycheck After days and months of patience As they say the government works in mysterious ways Today is my day! After a massive “restocking” With foodstuffs and good stuffs I reduce the debt crisis In the name of a six-months rent Now our cat and mouse game With the landlady                     Is dead and gone Free at last free at last thank you lord I am free at last My mind is crystal clear, like the hourglass I take a walk In the neighborhood Owe my! I can’t avoid gazing at my neighbors Brand new X5 parked in the driveway The next thing I know I am in the back of a medieval type land rover ‘Gichana lala chini, ii gari apana ya mamako (Young man lie on the floor this vehicle ain’t your mamas) After an hour or so Full of slaps and boot kicks We reach their ‘safe haven” Half walking, half flying I fl...

  Kenyan Iam Tribal lists call me Rendille Tribe-all-lists call me Kenyan 18 I turned Five years down the line To the Area chief I went Weh Gichana natogha wapi ( Young man where do you hail from) And many other nonsensical questions Enough to fill a Yellow pages volume Were answered After weeks and months of this “Research project” With clear objectives To find out about my family,clan, subtribe and other archaic archelons The chief signs up the form To the district registry miles away is the next “Perfect destination” Fingerprints, lights and cameras My eyes hurt 12 months, 24 months My Identity card is yet to come What my ancestors did To make their generations look Like suspects at first sight Is still an hornets nest My Identity seems A threat to national security If wishes were horses Second class citizenry, like I seem to be Would have sold our locale On OLX and gotten The hell out of here For what’s the se...