Friday, September 16, 2011

Two Blind Mice and a Cat in Kenya's Politics

Kenya's political arena is pretty curious a theater, it is an arena in whose all players are animals, a circus with no very many wild animals without human handlers. The big jumbo takes a crap on the entrance to the circus, the monkeys snatch biscuits and bananas from the little children making them scream, Mr. Lion is sitting in a corner he gets bored wakes up 'susuus' on his tail and sprays everybody in the arena with caustic urine. The delirium ends befor it even begins.

However, the in the disorder that reigns in the whole arena the fact that the conductors to this crazy circus are two tiny mice one black, the other white and a cat. My community's elders tell me that a garden mouse produces a sound akin to an elephants trumpet. Somehow the chirps of this two mice brings some semblance of order. Other white queue behind the white mouse and black mice queue behind the black mouse (because i do not want to use Raila's allegory of a mice, a bell and a cat i will use my own.)

The files of mice are on their way to a grandma's granary, they both smell a cat or he whitish cat on the way. An argument ensues immediately.

Black mice: You should not have come he will see you, you are white remember.
White mice: Are you deluded, you should not have come you are black, remember, you stink too.

An acrimous shouting ensues between the white mice and the the black mice which inevitably wakes up the cat, he is blind too. He wakes, stretches smells a rat and runs like a commot sleep. The mice are baffled, What? they ask in unison.

A hidden fact to the mice though is that the cat a vegetarian, a strict vegan who does would not stomach the smell of mice meat. To him mice meat reeks like an open sewer, in fact it makes him stomach bloat, he is more at home chewing grass than running after mice.

Before i stray from an otherwise boring story, we Kenyans surely do not need two blind mice; Uhuru and Ruto and a cat Raila that does meat to lead us. For i am certain that we being the resourceful people we are will figure out how to live with one another in this jungle, what a peaceful jungle it is without mice and cats.
What a beautiful country we would have if we did not have a senile cat to lead us, oh what a country we would have if a Dutch mousetrap would catch the mice for us.

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