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From:  Alieu Darboe <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject:  Re: Puhus the Post-Modern Critic - A story
Date:  Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:06:48 -0000
>"LULLABY FOR THE HUNGRY"
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>Lullaby for the hungry
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>Sleep, You hungry people, sleep!
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>The gods of food watch over you.
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>Sleep, if you are not satiated
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>By wakefulness, then sleep shall fill you.
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>Sleep, with thoughts of smooth-as-butter-promises,
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>Mingled with words as sweet as honey.
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>Sleep, and enjoy the best of health.
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>What a fine thing is sleep for the wretched!
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>Sleep till the coming of morning
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>Then it will be time enough to rise
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>Sleep in the swamps
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>Surging with silty waters
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>Sleep to the tune of mosquitoes humming
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>As if it were the crooning of doves.
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>Sleep to the echo of long speechifyings
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>By great and eminent power politicians
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>Sleep, you hungry people sleep!
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>For sleep is one of the blessings of peace.
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>It is stupid for you to rise
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>Sowing discord where harmony reigns.
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>Sleep for the reform of corruption
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>Simply consists in your sleeping on.
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>Sleep, you hungry people, sleep!
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>Don`t cut off others` livelihood.
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>Sleep your skin cannot endure
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>The shower of sharp arrows when you wake.
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>Sleep, for the yards of jailhouses
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>Are all teeming with violent death,
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>And you are the more in need of rest
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>After the harshness of oppression.
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>Sleep and the leaders will find ease
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>From a sickness that has no cure
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>Sleep, You hungry people, sleep!
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>For sleep is more likely to protect your rights
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>And it is sleep that is most conducive
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>To stability and discipline
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>Sleep I send ymy greetings to you;
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>I send you peace, as you sleep on.
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>Sleep,You hungry people, sleep!
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>The gods of food watch over you
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>Sleep, You hungry people sleep
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>The gods of food watch over you.
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>MUHAMMAD MAHDI al- JAWAHIRI
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>The Great Iraqi award winning poet, MUHAMMAD MAHDI al- JAWAHIRI, was exiled and eventually died in the first half of the twentieth Century for his pro-democracy and pro-poor writings.
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>This is just to show how beautiful language really is: the sharp and onomatopoeic sound of the names of the people in the story about Puhus and his arrogant master; the eulogizing resonance of Dr. Mam Birams geniality; the indifference to the plight of the poor and hungry in Al- Jawahiri`s "Lullaby", all indicate how, in their brevity, these three literary pieces have described the various tendencies of human beings: some powerful and cruel, some rich and greedy, others poor and content, and yet others educated, erudite and humble; and so on...
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>Rene and Baba your lines are eruditely strong;may be they are didactic for despots, I hope so...As for me, if death is a choice, I want to die like Rene`s Dr. Mam Biram,rather than Baba`s Puhus and his arrogant Dr. Yahakat...
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>Alieu
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>From: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Baba Galleh Jallow
>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:24 PM
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>Subject: Re: Puhus the Post-Modern Critic - A story
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>Thanks Rene. Dr. Mam Biram is indeed the type of citizen we need in our country and elsewhere. Not the Dr. Comganarrs and Puhus'. Thanks.
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>Baba
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>         Date:  Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:31:05 EDT
>         >Baba,
>         >       This is a very good one. Very  interesting story. Let me try and
>         >compliment it with a contrast.
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>         >           He is a  very unassuming person; a very good communicator, eloquent
>         >and  knowledgeable in his speech deliberations. He is the one person, who
>         >singurlarly, ignited the flames of civic passion and instilled a burning desire
>         >of patriotism to a younger generation, who voraciously satiated from the
>         >fountain of knowledge issuing from his mighty pen. He is the one who ripple the
>         >calm waters, and amid the storm sail gently to shore with his powerful
>         >insights;  his clever polemics and his fervent critique of the decay and backwardness
>         >of  the political dispensation of the day. He is Dr. Mam Biram; an astute,
>         >erudite,  upright, selfless, dedicated and committed intellectual to the total
>         >overhaul of  the abusive state machinery of governing. In its place, Dr. Biram
>         >wants to help  build a vibrant democracy that is attuned to the needs and
>         >aspirations of the  people. A democracy whose engine is lubricated with the voices
>         >of dissent; the  freedom of expression to do and say that which is not
>         >injurious to the welfare  and well being of others. Dr. Biram wants to help build a
>         >country that everyone  would
>         >be proud to call home. A country where none should be a slave to another
>         >person and everyone should be a master of his or her own destiny.
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>         >       Why is it so difficult to build such a  country? The answer to this
>         >question....
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>         >       Rene
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