Monday 7 May 2012

Enmore

Enmore Martyrs’ Pride - April24th 2012- Habeeb Alli, Blossom Scheme
You know you’re Enmorean
When you stop a hire car
And you see seventeen passengers crouching
You shout Enmore and get No More!

You can only come from Enmore
If you know what’s 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30 whistle
You’re living at Estate although your address is Enmore Newtown Village
And falling inside sideline, swimming in broadside and washing by black water trench is you.

Where else but Enmore
You can catch a fling for a bob
Not a friend by the name Bob or your cousin, Baapre baap
But with a ticket to Gem four o’clock Sunday matinee, slipping into balcony!

And if it’s not Enmore, where else
That you know somebody only by their false name
And at 9 o’clock Banarat Bell News make you know their real name
Cuttail is Mr. Persaud Husain and Baby Chips is Ms Bibi Mohamed Singh

You had to be an Enmore child, God knows!
If you had played cricket and salt in the pasture and not community centre
Carry your neighbor to outpost
Check Lalbachan for tabeej and curse Mr Sylvester for punt not running on time!

And if this isn’t Enmore, then I ain’t Wajid grandson
You taking an outing Saturday afternoon, not out of town
But after doll up, you riding out to Public road
Liming with your friends, seeing who going to town, and who selling black pudding!

Where in Guyana you get your own National Day but for Enmore Martyrs
The whole country comes to remember five sugar workers, even Forbes, Rodney and Jagan
But you‘re either grazing cows or selling at Friday market near this sacred ground
And when you want to threaten your neighbor you say I’m going to send you to Logwood like Lalbhaji!

Such is Enmore, EHP vinegar, sugar and brains
Where people fall in love under Big Tree and buy sweetie at Big Shop
Where you go to night school at Guruji, Sunday school at Brother‘s bottom house and learn Qaida at Uncle Hydar!
But your intention is another kind of parsaud, mambogh and sirney!

Only in Enmore you can sleep tight knowing vigilante and Barry waking up all night!
But it’s Enmore alone where you can find this
Fetching mould from Choo-cow and shavings from Bawan on your father’s Big ben
Catching water from the hydrant and not the tap.

And yes where else but unique Enmore
Vidyarthi, Bheem and Jenu
Beating, way before American idol, lyrics of Lata, Jim Reeves and Sparrow
All in one night, with Jhango dancing before Building whistle!

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