Life is a mixed bag, like mixed nuts. Yuh buy them because nuff cashews pun de label and de price nice but open de can, um is bare peanuts; and yuh can’t return it. Life like dat too.
Yuh hear yuh getting bonus and it gine be big. De cheque arrive after Christmas and it look like yuh did wukking fuh Government ’cause dem tek de biggest piece. A mixed bag, just like de nuts.
According to a friend, marriage is a beautiful thing; yuh get de girl of yuh dreams and de in-laws of yuh nightmares. Speak fuh yuhself muh brudder, I always had good luck wid de in-laws.
Tek Raul Garcia. He serve he time for 20 years and was a model prisoner, yet he can’t get freedom because he is a stateless person. Bubbadus got people fighting to stay here and work illegally ’cause dem can’t get work permits. Dem would do anything to avoid deportation whereas Garcia would love nothing better than de Chief Immigration Officer accompanying him to Grantley Adams International Airport and putting he pun a plane and sending he somewhere, anywhere; he would embrace deportation. A mixed bag.
Garcia went pun hunger strike to bring he plight to public attention, hoping he would get a sympathetic ear in dis God-fearing country where de milk of human kindness and Christianity does roam day and night from loud speaker to louder speaker.
He get attention allright. But except fuh David Comissiong and Peter Wickham, de loudest view is to let he rot in jail till Cuba or Amurca tek he back.
Garcia finally get outa Dodds Prison but, from de look of things, he gone from one maximum security prison to another, where even to brush he teeth de guards must hand he de toothbrush and toothpaste through a hole in de wall.
A family willing to tek he in but de authorities not budging so we de people gine provide five guards, food and shelter for as long as it tek fuh a country to agree to take in Mr Garcia? Or ’til death? How come we can’t release he to the family, mek he wear an electronic bracelet so we know where he is all de time and have him report to de Hastings Police Station daily?
He don’t have nuh passport and even if he had and he went to Grantley Adams International Airport, which immigration officer would be foolish enough to stop Garcia from boarding a flight?
Bajans howling ’bout Garcia getting freedom but apparently not worried that murderers walking ’bout Bubbadus. Not a fella charge fuh killing Mr de Beauville son; not a fella get charge fuh nuff other unsolved murders but we worrying ’bout a man who serve he time, never kill nobody, is now a skilled artist, can support heself and not be a burden pun de taxpayers.
A fella went to de doctor and had some tests. Four days later he went fuh de results and de doc tell he: “I got bad news and I got very bad news; which you want first?”
“Gimme de bad news, then de very bad news.”
“Well,” say de doc, “de test results show yuh only got one day to live.”
Bawling down de place, de patient say: “Doc, wuh kind of very bad news you could have after that?”
“Well,” say de doc calmly, “I should have called you yesterday.”
I, Market Vendor, gone fuh now, you have a blessed and a wonderful day, yuh hear?