Not to be confused with Kas-Kas, this poem re-stages a tracing match (i.e. a quarrel) between two Jamaican women.
Common cuss-words like "boogooyagga" (low-grade) "heng-pon-nail " (bedraggled) are here liberally used. Opponents are sometimes subjected to the most unexpected similes as " Yuh lip dem heng dung lacka wen Mule kean meck up him mine".
Gwan gal yuh fava teggereg, Ah wey yuh gwine goh do? Yuh an yuh boogooyagga fren Dem tink me fraid o' yuh?
Goh wey, yuh fava heng-pon-nail, Is me yuh want fe trace? Me is jus de one fi teck me han An leggo pon yuh face.
Fe me han noh jine chu ch an me naw Pay licen fe me mout', Me wi tell yuh bout yuh--se yah Gal noh badda get me out.
Me noh know is wat kine o' chu'ch Fe yuh mout' coulda jine, Yuh lip dem heng dung lacka wen Mule kean meck up him mine.
Gwan, me an yuh noh combolo, Yuh foot shapeless an lang Like smaddy stan far fiing dem awn An meck dem heng awn wrang.
Fe yuh foot fava capital K, Koo pon yuh two nose-hole! Dem dis big an open out like Miss Tane outsize fish bowl.
Goh wey, yuh kean bwile sof egg But still yuh want get ring, Noh man na gwine fe married yuh Wen yuh kean do a ting.
Is grudge yuh grudgeful, me kean cook But me ben goh dah good school, Me got intelligency yuh Illiterated fool !
Me sorry fe de man yuh get De po' ting hooden nyam When you ackebus him salt-fish An bwilivous him yam.
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