You have picked me out.
Through a distant shot of a building burning
you have noticed now
that a white cotton shirt is twirling, turning.
In fact I am waving, waving.
Small in the clouds, but waving, waving.
Does anyone see a
soul worth saving? – Extract from ‘out of the blue’ by Simon Armitage
You probably read that little poem up there totally wrong,here is why…
Over the years,way back from primary school,I hated poetry,all those incoherent sentences in twisted meanings and complicated terms just didn’t get me.That explains why I always failed in poem-writing class,I just didn’t see why someone had to make a simple sentence sooo twisted. However,many many years later,to be precise 3 years ago,I met @bluepetal who turned out to become a really good friend of mine,she introduced me to poetry when she took me to one of the great annual poetry sessions around kampala town and ooh my God that stuff was superb,the way the poets expressed the words made me deeply infatuated with poetry and I never missed a session thereafter.
One thing caught the attention of my bad side though,I noticed that everyone who came onto the stage had a plastic accent,and by plastic I mean artificial,and by artificial I mean foreign,and by foregin I mean forged and fake. Somehow,everyone seemed to have jumped out of a HarryPotter or Game of thrones movie cast.It felt like I was watching Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) recite a poem with his strong native british accent. Now let’s be clear,none of the people I saw on that stage looked british and what are the odds that they all spent their early childhoods in a british pre-school on the streets of London?? Very minimal indeed..
So my question is,do we have to have british accents to be good poets in kampala? Is that why I can never be a good poet? Cause my accent is native ugandan,deep from the abyss of Masaka. And where do we go to subscribe for this british accent class??
Well now that you know what you have to do,re-read that Simon Armitage Extract. It makes a lot more sense in an accent… Amazing!!!!!!!!!… Hope to catch you at the next poetry session gavnarrr
Mozart AFK
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