Uncle Kalaki, by Salma Ginwalla

Uncle Kalaki

by

Salma Ginwalla

The piteous misdemeanours and terrifying transgressions of our leaders

You unfailingly unfurl and propogate for your reliable readers

No doubt, your political satire to many does provide comic relief

But for me, I shake my head in despair and disbelief

And ask: who appointed this upstart bespectacled spectator

To be our exalted nation's hell-raiser?

Why! Unbeknownst to us, this gadfly of our sluggish state

Has made our politicians a laughing stock for the world to berate

I declare that this fossilised relic of our painful past, we must deport

For he loathsomely likens our judicial system to a kangaroo court

And this whisky-imbibing sanctimonious scribbler

Audaciously derides our revered former leader as Master Dribbler

King Movious has proclaimed from his regal throne

Spectator Kalaki - GO HOME!

An Ode to Sister Salma

by Kalaki

How I wish your barbs had missed

This tormented satirist,

How your hilarious words do drop

From a new-found Malaprop,

And how I wish you'd find a scooter

To go back home to Mazabuka