Feinin as a Tobagonian athlete
We tell dem we different in ways and language. We not weak and lazy over money and oil. Who dem feel we small, we big in we heart of we own. Ah have land, ah have fruit tree bearing, Ah have vegetable garden and still you tink you better. Talk, talk talk and never do, do, do. Stay off meh property
Feinin celebrating a Chinese holiday
Sharon leekim fat hong loo chinsue cho teelip pigling Small, I see you and yuh creole husband celebrating Chinee arrive day at Broadway, Independence Square Friday last. Meh maco neighbour tell meh dat yuh trying to make copy like Eric. She say from she window, she hearing bedspring creaking, and you flying up in de air and spinning like copter, den bawling as if yuh want to make headline with five udder in tomorrow paper or borning twin, natural.
Sharon leekim fat hong loo chinsue cho teelip pigling and Gregory Small at Independence Chinee Restaurant
I went to yuh family Chinee grocery cow heel, salt prune, red pepper mango, copybook, laundry and Chinee cantonese food place and see yuh have import on yuh menu called, all dem new breed direct. Ah order meh special fry wanton with plenty ketchup and pepper. De lady behind de cage and chain, tell meh, War yo u tink me have ket ch up fac to ry lik Ma touk in de fo wl coup. Ah say to meh self, allyuh raising price as if I is de Prime Minster wife fail to teach meh maths, is five dollar off when I use up all dat ketchup
Feinin as a Syrian cloth peddler
Good day Madam, I want you tell you of my future as I lay my goods for you to see. What I see for my country far and my people near. I promise to myself that all my tears of sweat will flourish into something greater that you would ever expect of me, humble as I am. This, I see a land that belongs to my kin, ruled from seas and shores. Food, drink, transport, media and housing will bear my fruit. Fear is in all of us who lack a vision to succeed.
Madam, if you don't mine my ill manners, Jah, dis ice box cold Stag,Grand BazaarCarib cooling meh down as if I playing Golf in meh own course and smoking meh cigar imported from Miami oui
Feinin as Tiara the casher
Why dem French creole and brown skin Syrian feel dey could walk in we establishment barefoot as if dey just off de docks from Barbadoes. If my child ever walk out meh house without slippers and shirt in pants, me and anybody go slap he till he blackout. I does vex when dey lazy children does pass for Government school, but find dem selves attending prestige school like Fatma or Holy Name. Is frending have dem so. When serious football match host, is always dem who have de best seats, and dey dough even watch de game.
Mister, yuh two dollars and five cents short, yuh have anymore bottle?
And dem who feel dey white over in dey Indian, Chinee, Negro and Spanish skin. I remember last when I did meh catering at de Country Club Christmas fete, meh fada once deny to enter, I see dem young off spring wine stinker dan a George Street Jamet Nigger. Who dey feel dey fooling when meh albino niece have whiter skin, bluer eye and natural blond hair. Oh lawd, yet ever see when real white people visit, dem does attached like bamsee toilet paper.
Now yuh have to watch dem Syrian and Chinee businessman tearing down oui heritage and building big story building me ain't never go live in only if dey hire meh as security guard. Ah tell meh sister in Jersey, girle St. James looking as if is Miami ah seeing. Dem have dere inbreed family fix oui, ah just see one just past in a dere black Mercede wit illegal tint.
Feinin as Kara Walker getting her hair done
Feinin badeing under a stand pipe, Port of Spain
Wha happen, you is a buller watching meh bade in yuh fancy Toyota Hilux. I know I have only trolley to carry cardboard box and fruits at de market, but I ain't sweating to pay for it like you who feel yuh big in oui capital, driving Big Company car or Government vehicle yuh don't own or respect. You spending all yuh money in gym pumping iron all day and yuh still eying meh natural body because I does walk all day to pick up all de Carib bottle after you, when you yuh self does pelt dem out yuh air condition truck.
Lady, dough strain yuh neck, it quail up in meh draws, but it clean with Carbolic Soap. Look you, yuh watching meh with yuh eye straight nearly bounce dat old Datsun 120y in front of yeh. I saving up for Courts Repossess two tub washer so dough mind I does wash meh clothes under de pipe with Breeze and Colgate have meh teet and gold cap white and shinny ever since I stop sucking all dat guava sweet and kaser ball in Primary school.
Is here I staying dees days, meh granny bring me up proper, I love she till she dead. Is dem whatless Junior Sec dat teach meh how to survive and cable and deportee show meh de way "Hello Rosaline, I is away for a fortnight , when I see yuh, I’ll show you what I learn, de mis and jook in de caca"
We will we will rock you
Feinin going to a San Fernando chutney fete with slick down hair with oil. Which one better? Coconut or Vaseline?
Hello, Pandey, yuh have meh waiting in dis dark cane field, yuh know I does frighten because meh cousin Sisodiya tell meh dey have plenty Soucouyant and I eh want to get suck unless is you sucking on meh neck and between meh nanny. Ah wash it with carbolic soap this time, we ca both have curry mouth staining we skin. Make sure yuh bring back meh fada record and de cassette yeh promise to make. Ah plat meh hair in a bun to fool meh fada, as if I going to night prayers and go bring meh light foundation to over up de love mark. Bring two hot Guinness just incase I ca wash it out by de river..."
Singampalli, daling, ah just rub down meh dashboard with Mayaro coconut oil wit a dab of Vaseline. It go make you feel like country in meh Datsun 120y. I better put some good pressure in de back tire, all ten of meh partners have to fit in de back.
Oh Shiva, I forget to hide meh treasures in de car, Singampalli yuh lock up de windows tight? Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, Queen the works album among other memorabilia in a Datsun 120y
Feinin cooking Libby's Horn Food
Oh gorm, Rosaline, yuh season de pot well wit Maggi, It making feel to meh to brush yuh double. You talk wit yuh gold teet self, I tell yuh to buy Libby's with Montreal smoked Pork flavor Corned Beef. Yuh know George does fret after holding bandit like you all day, night, morning, evening, Christmas and Eid. He want he favourite dish with slice tomato and cucumber like always, tree times a week. It nearly six o'clock now and Four Roads just up de road. Yuh know he have siren horn to pass all dat traffic and sometime he does get drop wit blimp or helicopter when dey have no vehicle.
Yuh done finish yet? Pull up meh pantie nah. Now, ah have to finish cook, spray the bedroom with black disinfectant to kill out yuh smell and untie de twenty rottweiler. Bring dat quail up cabbage yuh tell meh yuh tief in de Central Market last time, and scale de wall close to de neighbour kitchen side, dem so does maco yes. Jahmaddin, Jahmaddin, where de key, where de key to open de Corn Beef?, Oh fada Muslim, why you and Deportee does forgot to pick one wit it.
Addendum: In Trinidad sayings, Corn beef is termed as a meal which can be prepared very quickly, making quite apt as to be called Horn Food.
Horn: AdulteryAh get so much jook in meh finger, I need Detol fast
Feinin- Hermes - Betsy Ross is mending her Flag which Old Calypso is fraying apart leaving only one colour resembling stained blood red
One evening, La Diablesse and Betsy went to the Queen's Park Savannah to get some beastly cold coconut water from a vendor you wouldn't want to be his wife from the way he handled his cutlass. Diablesse was still upset over her failing looks, and for the third week straight she didn't cause any car wrecks like before when men strained their necks to see her gait.
Across from the street, where the Majestic Seven stood, and fences to protect seven erected RESTORATION IN PROGRESS billboards, Betsy noticed that her beloved flag conceived over the great wars of Independence in !962 was fraying. The symbolic bands of Red, White and Black were separating. This was the home of Mama Dlo's current husband and something had to be done for such a show of degradation and disrespect.
At the stroke of twelve midnight, Ligahoo and Soucouyant members of the Super Seven whose motto reads, "You tink yuh smart, yuh grave dig already, Shadow waiting at yuh home" fell upon the gates of White Hall. Soucouyant put she Bmobile free minutes after 12 pm spell on de sleeping real African guard and wake he quick. Ligahoo, disguise and climb up de flag pole as a manicou, turn and he and he bamsee look down at Soucouyant too, making free calls she self. She calling she neighbour to check in on she skin, if it still hanging.
When de Super Seven arrived by Betsy, Betsy find it strange, why dem two bring she flag in two HiLo bag, is one nation she remember. The rags smelled of oil, gas and Mint printing ink dirty up wit many clawing hands, local and foreign. "Mildred, where de Clorex, meh flag have stubborn stain to remove".
A State of Emergency - Betsy Ross works throughout the night to finish her task to cover her coffin with her beloved flag, then leaves to work on a two hundred year old year old cloth called, Old Glory
Addendum: Betsy Ross 1752 – 1836 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been credited with assembling the first American flag. I sat in my chair and thought about God, duty and the freedom fighters. The stars left hope for the birth of the confederation of an untied union
Feinin - Hermes - Sir Walter Raleigh 1618
My humble lord, grant me my last, so I shall die with a morsel that equals Heaven..... "Is Crix and cheese he want, guards go down Sindra's tuck shop a buy a bag fuh meh, wholewheat and a block of cheese" Lawd, cheese and flour gone up again. If yuh was meh young broda, ah treat to cassava farine and zaboca or dry full cream power milk with two teaspoon of sugar
Weep, bring nothing to me as I alone shy over my peril past...
All dem soft Crix I eat last night make meh belly ride, I better take a dose of Tanti Senna pods so meh body go be clean before I met de Lawd
Addendum: In a Bermudez' Crix commercials, I recall a man going through customs with a large trunk and a small paper bag. when he was asked by the officer, what was in the suitcase, he replied, " Meh Crix", then whats in this bag, "Meh clothes".
Don't fuck with me fellas
The Hollywood actress Joan Crawford in a supreme Mildred Pierce shoulder pad dress with a coil do- Feinin-Hermes
This women is trouble over here, She's destructive over her fame which has ended. The trouble is her choice of words. Rude, unbred. No one is listening to you at this moment. Tears on your pillow says good, a women afraid to asked. Tell him the truth Schiller, rip that colossal ape.... bring me a chair, tar, tar, tar tis, puke.
The Hollywood actress Joan Crawford with her disinherited daughter Christina
Put down de focking phone, I paying all de bills, How many times ah tell yuh, just add tap water. Ah tell yuh meh boyfriend coming over, so yuh better finish ironing meh pleats stiff with de new and improve Honig Moment Starch, s o l u b l e in cold water, get de dictionary and learn de word. How hard is dat...imbecile. It says not cooking, no focking cooking. After yuh press dem, ah go lock yuh up and tape over de hole so yuh ain't go peep like last time.
This is my house meh fada leave behind. Ah tell yuh for a big woman yuh have no focking mind for yuh-self, and always jealous-ing to be like meh. Well it ain't focking happening. Missy, Missy, who tell yuh to touch meh Pepsi, I go rip your ape face off and dis own yuh one of these days.
Baby Jane - The Great Bette Davis - Feinin-Hermes
I can't bring myself to this that a fatherless person can survive. I hurts me to see this portrait reminding us the joy of parenthood. I'm sure that God has some sort of reason for him, this person is truly gifted knowing things beyond my imagination. God, what power if only I knew love to be like this.
I've always cherished my acting abilities with roles that equaled my male counterpart. These times are different I see. A glimpse into the future is rewarding too. I see things so unforgeable that it makes me want to sing. Bring back MGM, poet.
Baby, baby tired, baby want nip
It ain't Bush Rum I using, is up class Royal Oak Trinidad Rum from meh Venezuelan half cousin Angostura using importing molasses from Guyana and bottles polished in Barbados. Baby Jane does bawl when she tire, meh soursup juice ain't working, but a nip of meh special prize rum does make baby eyes close fast and sweet.
Addendum: This study I confess was disturbing particularly when I assembled the doll / infant. I knew her sex to be a girl. I held the child close to my chest and cradled her. It felt very natural but extremely frighting because it was a shell. I was actually holding newsprint, rags tied in plastic bags
