Cowboy Movies

1.

An inglorious after taste

Stale fibres stuck between the molars

Evading the toothpicks of time

It lingers

I regurgitate a childhood

Wasted on cowboy movies

In innocence the sharp shooters were hailed

As bullets pierced through the land owners

Killers on fancy horses

Looking charming in hats

2.

The story line wildly doctored

Bespoke for the aggressor

Nameless red Indians aplenty

They chanted and danced in dust

They kissed their own footprints

While I clapped for the cowboys

We played with plastic horsemen

Silver guns and matching hats

Bang bang at land owners

Wish I knew we were next

3.

Resources are scarce on the planet

And compassion is nowhere

Big guns big victory

Big pens write big history

Grabbed land named Nigeria

Colonised all like Malaria

New rules, new dispensation

That first name must be English

New laws were to come

And a local army was trained

4.

Monkey no born goat

Cowboy born cowboys

International oppressors

Breed local oppressors

Fight breaks out in districts

With guns and bullets from abroad

We import the best machines

To kill one another

Palm oil, crude oil, cow oil

The fight just dey go on

5.

I regret those cowboy pictures

Those gifts in my chewing gum

Erase from my mind the Hollywood,

The bad and the ulgy.

The Acidulent seven

Reincarnated as herdsmen

The cowboys and the red Indians

Were movies, were mirrors

I should never applauded the scenes

Where the land owner gets shot

Babawilly

Dr Wilson Orhiunu

05/07/2019