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(c)copyright Gene Wilkes

HURRY HEROES
(c)copyright Gene Wilkes
 

In our haste to create heroes
We need to be more circumspect,
And for integrity and truth
Have more than a little respect.
We doh need no hurry heroes
Who can't be role models for youth,
Sports idols and entertainers
Are seldom exemplars of truth.
Since I small kaisonians boasting
About how much woman they screw,
But still we expect teenagers
To have a different point of view.
Women are often degraded
In the lyrics of calypso,
When these singers are applauded
Aren't we saying we like it so?
Sparrow "wooed" the Martiniquan gyul
In his calypso Sa Sa Yea,
If you read the Catholic News,
That's what Helena Allum say.
But the feminists have a phrase
For the move that Birdie made,
It is SEXUAL EXPLOITATION...
If we would call a spade a spade.
"Is we culture" is a cop out
We use to condone anything:
Incest, female circumcision,
Child abuse and wife battering.
When we make someone a hero,
Many things they say and do
Get caught in the rosy glow of
The halo of approval too.
Should we really call a hero
A person who, when he can't cope
With problems facing him in life,
Then seeks the solution in dope?
Plenty singers exploit Merchant,
You could say some chook out his eyes,
But, when he dead, like hypocrites,
All man come out to eulogize.
Supercop had outside woman,
But no time for children and wife,
Yet, when the wife find a lover,
He kill she ... then take his own life.
Then one sees a loyal soldier
Who cherished wife and family,
But , like a true true Trini male,
He had to have a deputy.
Yes, a deputy essential,
Teacher-Kaisonian Penguin say,
But he self now advising youth:
Have respect for woman today.
But say what, dese is we heroes,
We eh care what nobody say,
We put them on a pedestal,
And we know they have feet of clay.
So... let's take with a pinch of salt
Things these heroes say and do,
'Cause, when all the bhagi boil down,
They're human just like me and you.