sweat and jostle and
jostle and push
jostle and jostle
push and jostle and
and shove and move
to the pulse
riddim pan
riddim and beat
the beat
sweat like a ram goat
sweat for so
and push and shove and jostle and shove and move hip sway hip wine in your wine and look how we enjoying we self — move hip sway hip slap hip big hip fat hip flat bottom big bottom sweet bottom wine-your-waist bottom. Look we nuh, look how we enjoying we self right here in Canada self and Toronto sweet sweet too bad — but look me crosses! Is not Totoben that? Begging your pardon, Mr. Emmanuel Sandiford Jacobs himself, right here in Canada if you please, carrying on as if he don’t give a damn blast or shit.
…For six cold-no-arse months he up at five cold or no cold, travelling two hours straight, punching a clock, working like a robot…But he don’t mind, not Totoben, not today…for today Emmanuel Sandiford Jacobs dead dead and Totoben in full sway, riding high, riding hard on University Avenue, T-shirt pull up high high over his belly which big round black and shining like it carrying six months of baby in it a real don’t-give-a-damn belly that walking down University Avenue…
— CARIBANA: AFRICAN ROOTS & CONTINUITIES — M. Nourbese Philip
