Another Thou Shalt Not 

MARGARET D. GILL

 

Thou shalt not covet they neighbour’s ox—

You! Even though the ox look good, I mean, real good—

It healthy, it healthy, it healthy!

When the sun do so and hit it

The brown skin does turn gold

And de muscles underneat de skin it lean lean,

And de meat it clean clean—

I tell you it nice it nice it nice! 

As Donna used to say.

 

Keep me from coveting my neighbour’s ox, cause 

That ox covetous

And I weak.  Ohhhh….

Margaret D. Gill, published and performance poet following in the footsteps of her mother, who wrote plays and recitations for children's Sunday school concerts.  Won her first international award for poetry, Shankar's International Children's Competition in India, at 14.  2007 Visiting Writer to Hong Kong Baptist University and Shandong University, China, as part of their jointly hosted International Writers' Workshop. Inaugural first-prize winner, Frank Collymore Literary Award (FCLA), and 2006 second-prize FCLA winner to Kamau Brathwaite. Latest performance, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Nelson Mandela 100 years birthday celebrations.