Typical Lagos setting, Pre-Fashola Oshodi to be precise

This is Lasgidi – A Poem

Can't beat those hell of horns
Noisy and noisy to the core
Always a big day for the dons
Crime's like a household chore

She tells lies all the time
About a hundred per second
'Makes sure you're left without a dime
And the whore's off in a second

Put your guns down
Testosterone obsessed guys at it again
Continues from dusk till dawn
'Guess tis the cops and the villains

In section 4 of the state code
Oh no, it's over the bar
Mr. Man "commot" for road
The court, soccer and a yellow car

Here is the millennium's pandemonium
Only a hundred people voted in the elections
Movies draw "Lagosians" to the auditorium
Then bribery, corruption and extortion

Street kids, handicapped and crippled
Jaundice, malaria and Insomnia
Phone, rent and clinic bills tripled
Madness, insanity and Schizophrenia

There is more you need to know
Almost everyone seems about it bogus
Can't understand? Lay low
This is the much-dreaded Lagos

XSI 02/08/2002

I wrote this some 7 years ago. Forgive my errors but point them out. Thanks.

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