You Is Ah Bajan?

I was sitting a clinic today. It seemed like hours that we had been there, yet they were moving expediently. I had several people in front of me and then a familiar name was called. He got up and spent his two minutes and returned to get his superscription stamped and a new appointment set. When he was leaving I called out to him and asked “should you but into my dad, explain what it is like up here. He must have been waiting very long”. He and my dad are old cricket friends and he was glad to be of help. When he left an old lady two chairs down asked me, with great doubt in here voice “ You is ah Baajan?”

 

You is ah Bajan?

You would never believe how often they ask me

Of my seemingly elusive nationality

Unsure that I could ever be a Barbadian

Inconsistently pronouncing their cherish Bajan

So often when I’m with a friend in public

And trying to sound like a Bajan chic

How clumsy I poor out my indigenous slang

Butchering this already butchered Lang

And because I speak with an uncertain accent

Just a touch of English, German, French and Spanish decent

All my enunciations are suspect to the Bajan’s ear

No one believes I was born and bred here

 

 

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