BUILDING THE NATION
(This is my all time classical, met it when I was eleven, todate it feels like it was written only a day before today, I hope you enjoy it too). Today I did my share in building the nation. I drove a Permanent Secretary to an important urgent function In fact to a lunch at the Vic. The menu reflected its importance Cold bell beer with small talk, then fried chicken with niceties Wine to fill the hollowness of the laughs Ice-cream to cover the stereotype jokes Coffee to keep the PS awake on return journey. I drove the Permanent Secretary back. He yawned many times in back of the car Then to keep awake, he suddenly asked, did you have any lunch friend? I replied looking straight ahead and secretly smiling at his belated concern that I had not, but was slimming! Upon which he said with a seriousness that amused more than annoyed me, Mwanainchi (Civilian) , I too had none! I attended to matters of state. Highly delicate diplomatic duties you know, and friend, it goes against my grain, Caus...