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?”
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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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