v.5
******************
CHAPTER TWO
DEAL IN A DEAF MUTE BOLT
Ibrahim Rafi'u returned from office dejected and tired,fancy free.He sat down and soonest was flung in a replay of the past.
He remembered the the days,He was squating with a friend...
AS A SQUATER
"Like a dapper eating a Danish pastry
in a danger pay of empty purse
those dapple dangle that fangled remind me
of squalor years
when I have to hang out dandified
and Dan to dark ages of thought.*
These years are not so empty in dare say
date raping dashes of a dart board
dastardly as a darkie
in a dwadle dawn sweeping chorus
of dazzling day time day trip
to penitent of nowhere.*
Those days that roll into years
from months of nursery days
debating debentures debilitating debauchery
debonair and debauched in dearness deanery
a state of death throes debacle
decamping to decadence of deck shoe
and deck chair of business tyconism
of declamatory declaration.*
Those days of decoy
in decrepit decree with decorum
that we have to inclusively wail around
dedicating our decline commission
to robust declension
that a word is spoken is not a lie
but a default in defamation
that wears deer stalker deepset seriousness
of munificent munitions.*
Chai chai Dan littafi kenan
those days when we have to travel
writing our stories in vowels and consonants
the diphtongs commuting in buses in deep freeze fry out ego monothongs
from kubwa to have a glimpse of the city's skyscrapers
deflecting to deism
and defiant to definite definitions.*
Delivering deluge of delicate demand
those were the years that one has to saunter
on a deluxe delusion
delving into Delta force delouse
of delivery men on demarcate uses
on denouement density.*
Demobbing the demo of the demotic murmur
I remember how hard we try to dement the fly
with a sledge hammer
gliding glib with a gloaming gloat
as first customers of the element
in first labour strandedness glimmering.*
Ibrahim Rafi'u, into his caveat of consciousness, and then said...
"Most especially with talent,indeed nothing in life is permanent. The only permanent rendezvous is change,that in itself is constant and subject to change".
After receiving a shout call from a friend that works with Abuja chambers of commerce, he returned to his eternal etching, espy with esteem,espousing essential establishment with estimable esquire essay.
AS A MEMBER OF KUBWA COMMUNITY
" Wearing my espa drilled in euphemistic euogy
that evade evaporate surface
in euphoria of evenness
these are the best of timeless peg
ideal in idlessness with evening stars
singing even song of riddling evidence
event and exactitude
in evolutionary evoke
twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder where your are
excitingly in excitement
in excess excerpt of excusable exclusion
exorcising with exotic dance
of chichidodo expansionism.*
With no faucet fault
fathoming in the fawning of fauna feathers
as fetter fettle ferment
with fictive fiasco fiddle
like the American gangster rapper
letting the motherfucker burn
as fey fib fibula fiddling fickler
wearing longborough shoe
as unimportant figure head and personity band
filthily finagling with filibuster finance
who and what were we listing
we don't know."
He stop and receive a shout call from a friend that works at Nigeria stock exchange tower first floor,then continue with his feather braining feasibility feature.
"Who is the we in the wound
of febrille fecklessness
feeble minded to fecund existentialism
unfealty and fearless
jumping at every skirt that gone passby
with feint frosting feistying
fervid fencing our firmament of
firmware flakjacketing.*
Gradually gradually graded
we were to grail graffiti
superlatively in graceful graduation
with gracious grade point average
in grappling grammer
as blues from kubwa at random.*
Grouchy on gross of ground level
levelling grouse of grungy grunt
with habitual guv'nor throwing handkerchief
of hare hard porn
high Fidelity in hollow holiness
honcho drinking hooch of honours degree
that hook it attractiveness in the hood
of the fortress of the city
in Trojan horse.*
Cornucopia and horrible
hannafi hannafi do you remember
I hope horsey munzali is nearby
to hear the horrendous horn pipe
horror story of front grid
like hossana hostelry hum hullo hue
of hyena in hurly burly hurry.*
With the beggerly borehole
behind and at the entrance of the graveyard
that poke it lace labour dayprosaic propulsion.
Alhamdulillah."
In lacklustre manner,he took on the years that flashes their labial labour,lamenting their laggard lagoon like at dakar with bow and arrow in languish Lane hunting lions.Kubwa a community is one of the sub urban area of Abuja city,where low income earners find succour and shelter their new found romance of living a city life.
Though the place has develop now,unlike in the past,it is still a suburb compare to places like maitama.
Ibrahim Rafi'u stop and take his bath for the day.It was Saturday,so he dress wearing a trouser and a t-shirt thereby consequently drive himself to the writers club Abuja,where he is a member.
He meet the reading and recitation in progress,with the:-
(1) The sword of damocles (Poem)
written by Yusufari Yushe'u (Mallam) in congregation. To be proceeded by...
(2) Damson dampness (Poem)
written by Miss.Sadiya Ibrahim Babale.Afterwards by...
(3) Sad account era by Miss Sadiya Jacob
And then...
(4)Synopsis of a wailing owl by Mallam Isyaka Ndagi.
It is a long day,so weekend mongers comes in number most especially those in love with letters.
When all the readings were completed,the session comes to an end.There Ibrahim Rafi'u droves back to his place to continue with his life with a zeals to catch fun later in the evening and that was that.
Soon after the Sunday morning service,Ibrahim Rafi'u meet with his office secretary charlyn general andrew toprank hotel.
"The trading at the stock market,nosedive during the week"
Ibrahim Rafi'u nobly curried...
Charlyn general Andrew nominate her nimble night gown as a nig nog in a nihilistic brawl,nipping her ninny ninja personality in a nippy nipple nibble.
Dash and about she speak.
"Nickel and dime newsworthy-ness niche marketing
but that is not important
the market was slightly cold with cadence catarrh
as the cartels are bent on a cagey Nexus to win"
Ibrahim Rafi'u questioned the audacity.
"Could it then be a hypocracy of means value"
Charlyn general Andrew answered.
"Mhn,no I don't think so,
as we were not part of the affected
camphor company
this is how it works".
She drew,a piece of paper from her bag containing the details and demonstrate the fluctuation.
|
| (A) Kingrow
|4.50. |
|---- | |
|3.50. | | |
|---- | | | |
|2.50. | | | |
|----- | | | | |
|1.50. | | | | | |
|----- | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
--------------------|---------|-------|-------|--------|-------|---------
Companies A
"That is for the textile shares.And if you look at other several examples enumerated here,you will see that our company is the lest on the worst side".
Ibrahim Rafi'u smiles heartily,then said...
" While,ulamma let pray that our story is not like others stories...
that is my concern as the new marketing and image maker of Kingrow global concept
for I wouldn't forget in a hurry
the sermon of the chief executive officer,
he caution me to ensure that the profile of the company be arisen to enviable high that others competition against the company be a weak ritual in a weak devotion...
And with your help I am convince that that can be attain".
Charlyn general Andrew hoaxed her voice and answered,shabbily replying.
"Oh,yeah only if we work along
with a camshaft campus
of chinless cajole".
Ibrahim Rafi'u in Chinatown,chief superintendent the condition.
" No doubt we will chin up along
to the grace".
They drink up liquor beer along,in a chivalrous manner and chirrup like birds,nesting to the glory of the hour.
Chirpy with cholate chin wag in merriment ad the hour last.
The following morning which happen to be monday. Ibrahim Rafi'u drive himself to the company tower.He is someone who hate the idea of being driven about,not by a fellow malefolk lest to talk of a lady or woman.