Maka Dimweh

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Anthony Joseph FRSL (born 12 November 1966) is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic. In 2023, he was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for his book Sonnets for Albert. more »

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Maka Dimweh was a soldier 
In the Guyanese army  
Get send up to Jim Jones territory
To clean up corpses  
Notorious in the news, when the mark bust 
Was the tent and the altar, the barrel 
And the upturned mouths of the faithful
In that camp nation: poison   
But up there in them jungle 
Had money to find 
Good US currency 
These army man find 
Men find money 
All under rock stone an' tootoo 
Money dash 'way like toilet paper 
'Well, Honey, I am bound to go  
These people don't need money 
Where they goin ' 

Fellas find money wrap up in kerchief and socks  
Dead people money  
Jaw grind pornography 
And jewels: gold and white pearl, ruby, lapis lazuli  
Men find keys for motorcar park up quite in America  
Like bush meat the immigrant want eat 
But can't bring back from dream 
But no matter what trick get try 
Or which hole they fold it in
That same Maka Dimweh
He woulda find it anywhere 
Big bad Maka Dimweh 
He find it anywhere 
 
Maka watch his best friend Bodhi get rip out 
By a cutlass coming back from fishing 
And fall on the slippery rocks above the bay 
Capsize and enter between the ribbing 
Rip out his particulars, and the boy body beat-up
Till his liver get frighten, till his bile spill out 
Like the white milk of egg and the scent 
Was of snakes in the garden after the rain  
Eyes wide open and rolling around the skull  
Turn back an' come again Rock back an' turn back 
And kick back and come again 
Rain falling on the sea, fish falling out the bucket 
And since that day, since that day
Maka coulda never eat no meat 
That same Maka Dimweh, Maka-Maka Dimweh  
Big bad Maka Dimweh  

Oh gosh man! Hear the vision  
Maka run Florida, catch jail for DUI 
Maka gone Brooklyn, he in the jungle now 
Maka bust a man chest in New York
And get five more years in Uncle Sam jail
That same Maka Dimweh, Maka-Maka Dimweh!
Rock back an' come again

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