Tongue of Executives

Tongue of Executives

Press conference or media report

The executive tongue wags,

Thrashing the air of sweet jargons

That must move along the ears

Of all it may or may not concern.

The mike, hands and ink alert:

When executives steal,

It is a mistake of misallocation.

When an official is fired,

The headlines stream

‘Requested to retire’.

When all eyes and camera lightenings

Witnessed police batons

Rapturing crowds

And their clubs

Fracturing the assemblies of bones,

Was it not sounded by the spokesperson

That it was calming down the masses?

Haven’t many read,

‘Requested the people …’?

When the chief had issued decrees?

When rebels killed to win a wild war,

Our word was liberation

Our songs spiced by the chorus of gunfire

Marking carols of national victory.

Have we not modestly professed?

“We hereby amend …”?

When we mean to abrogate?

I bet if we don’t often confess

He was caught up somewhere,

Just to cover his month-long absence.

Now!

Executive man, tell me.

In what dialects shall we report your demise?

What idioms shall write your memoirs?

Tell me the jargons to pen your deathography.

What vernaculars shall mourn your funeral rite?

What lingo shall scribble your tombstone?

What slang shall type your rememberance?

What euphemism shall shade your epitaph?
Rurekyera Geofrey

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