Tada-Marie Boneo
The annual Spoken Word Competition organised by the Catholic Commission for Social Justice was held Saturday, November 20 under the theme The Ever Wider We.
Here is ‘She Doh Know Nah’ by Tada-Marie Boneo who placed second.
(Steups)
You know what this lady tell me
I was minding my business
Just so easy easy
She step to me saying,
“You’re an eyesore, you look filthy and you smell nasty”
Like she doh know who is me
I is the vagrant from Grande
Ah say
I is The vagrant from Grande
She doh know nah
I ugly?!
Can’t she see
The ribs framing abs on my flat stomach
She hopes to achieve
But she doh know nah
She doh know bout starving for 3 days a week
Cuz you doh have nothing to eat
My diet is not for the weak
Can’t she see the way
My hips sway
For these gaps on my thighs
She prays
But she doh know nah
She doh know bout walking outside KFC
For the chicken grease smell yuh chase
Cuz that plenty for twenty
Only works if you have the twenty to spend in the first place
She.. Doh …know nah
Like she cah tell
How sweet I smell
A trail of fruit flies bloom with every step I take
When I pass so
People just move and clear the way
I walk on red carpets all day
I sleep on designer garbage bags
My clothes seasoned with age
The rips and tears
Gucci can’t even hope to imitate
She doh know nah
She doh know nah
I am the only gift for Jesus’ birthday
When people come by me and say
“The Pope said, The ever wider we,
I am giving alms to charity”
But it seems to me like that
Ever Wider We a lil narrow
Cuz after Christmas Day
They does gone they way
But I don’t know nah
She doh know bout that mental strain
To try to keep a smile on your face every day
When people say
“She cyah geh a wok?! watch she”
But who go interview me
When I ain’t bathe since it rain
These clothes I wear
For five years they marinate
They doh know nah
And she skin up she face…and call me lazy
Eh heh?! Well I didn’t forget she
She ent know how hard I train
Honey, I is a certified beggar
She doh know nah
I had a brother and a sister
While they went to school during the day
I start my lifelong profession
High…Way… beggin
For their education
I had to pay
I couldn’t afford to go to school after SEA
But what does it matter
Anything I say
She not going and retain
Is best I talk to myself
Up to now
She doh know how deep her words stain
She doh know nah
(Steups)
Hah lord
She really doh know.
