Monday massacres: Intent to kill
// August 31st, 2009 // 6 Comments » // Monday Massacres...Bollocks
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It is that time of the month. The moon has aligned, the flowers have bloomed, Lyupe has lost her flower, Kigwe, village witch, has farted…all is right for the season. You can see it in the dogs’ eyes, the way they make come-hither signals to each other…if canines loved flowers, they’d be carrying bunches to each other. They’d probably hug and croon each other to sleep…yes, it’s mating season. These animals have no shame, doing it everywhere, getting stuck in each other…
This story is not about mating…no, even I, Lundi, soon-to-be-man…even I am above that. Writing about mating seasons. It is hunting season. And I am ‘soon-to-be-man’ because I haven’t captured an animal yet. Take Madi for example. He is a full man. In our village, a full man has seven balls. Metaphorically. I think. But going by the trousers Madi wears, he may actually have the seven balls. Madi achieved Full man (seven ball) status when he chased an antelope non-stop for two days. The antelope run and run and run and run….now Madi, of the blood-shot eyes and sinewy muscles(and of seven balls), also run and run and run…after two days of running, the antelope got tired of running. It stopped. Madi carried the screaming antelope back to our village and claimed his status. Madi, ugly as hell, is now all the village belles have eyes for…you walk through the village with Madi and all the nubile females are like:
While fingering their beads, “njuealkahhj Madi,” while stretching to be noticed. Loosely translated, that means ‘Hi Madi’. And that’s a really loose translation; an accurate one would involve me telling you that the statement has “let’s go and make-out” undertones. But I have young readers…
So today, I too plan to become a man. Seven balls. Myth has it that after you capture that elusive animal, the balls actually grow on you. You know, like how the beard and deep voice creep up on you without you noticing (till someone jumps back in shock when you start talking).
I spent the night practicing my ‘triumphant entry’ speech in front of the mirror. What, you now think that because we hunt we do not have mirrors? Shame on you, tribist. So, in the mirror, I was king. And Madi, ugly as hell, was engulfed in jealousy…
We set off at first light. Technically, that isn’t possible since ‘first light’ comes at the instant the sun’s rays kiss your part of this scorched flat earth. And there’s no way the rays you are seeing are the first kissers. No way. See, I hold both the village brain and village quiet portfolio.
I digress too much…the hunting, we set off, Facebook, the village queer, at the front…he always led the hunting party; sniggers I’d tapped into suggested that the village silently prayed that he get mauled by some aliens or something. Very brave queer that one. The forest was alive. The birds were not singing, they were making some strange strange noises…seeing as it is mating season…but the forest was alive. Insects were making lotsa noise and some (early)birds were actively chasing (early) worms…ahhh, the joys of hunting. I had my spear with me, holding it the way Kaga had shown me. I’d carefully wrapped myself in those pieces of skin we use to hide our loins…just our loins. These village-mates are so primitive! First order of business on getting seven-ball status; get this village some clothes. However, I’ll be quick to point out that I do not mind the skins the girls wear…they leave enough stuff out there for one to enjoy our chest-to-chest greeting.
Yes, I digressed again. The party had been walking forever…and breakfast is taboo. My belly was doing perfect back-flips. The berries were looking very inviting, the leaves seemed to be glistening in the sun’s rays, calling me, beckoning…the forest screamed ‘Eat me’.
Ouuuww!! Sharp pain…a slap. Kaga had slapped me; he says he found me hugging a tree and biting its bark..damn hunger. We keep walking…seven ball status, here I come.
And in other news, this writer was at the Lantern meet of poets…and the fingers are burning to write about it; a story that’ll make you bang your head against that PC monitor screaming “NOOOOoooooo…”
“Why didn’t I leave watching rabbits make-out to Normzo and go for that thing!!”….”NOOOooooo….” and then you stand up and run out of office/the cafe/the-kafunda-connected-to-the-net-using-your-phone.








