Fretty Dissoon visits the morgue

“HELLO is me, Fretty Dissoon. Is this the morgue? You got a list of the dead? Why you looking at me so? I need the list to check out a few names so I can mention them in my next column. In my line of work, being a top investigative journalist, you got to be careful. When I tell readers somebody say things about the present WTB – that stands for Worse Than Burnham government – you got to be careful. I got to be careful because when I mention a conversation I had with a person he or she got to be dead. Dead, dead, dead, I tell you.

Let me see, Ramasammy from the old WPA just dead. I use he name already. I tell people he lambaste and castigate, unmercifully, unrepentantly, rambunctiously, condignly, intellectually, ipso facto, tenaciously and other ways about the PPP regime. What you looking at me so for? In other words, he talk bad about this disgusting, corruptive, degenerate, impotent, unfit, null and void, inoperative, disqualified, disconnected, proportionally ethnic oriented, disreputable, fascist, WTD government. You en got the list? I got to be sure because some of these people may be living in the back dam in some small village in Berbice and if I quote them, they may come for my tail. By the way, you see these people living in Berbice? Most of them Indian. Why, Oh God, why, why, why, why do these stupid people keep voting back for that disgusting, corruptive…oh sorry, you said something about the list? You wait til the boys at Freedom House see what I going say! Heee! Heee! And the readers can’t check anything because the persons dead, dead, dead. Dead, I tell you! I going outsmart them PPP boys who worse than Burnham. What happen with you? Why you looking at me so?

This the morgue? You does write name on tags and tie it round big toe of the bodies just like I see in the TV movies? You can’t talk? Like working among the dead got to you and you ent get into your thick head the PPP worse than Burnham and the security at the door want to pick a quarrel with me and somebody meet me in a hardware store coming up here and you got to steel yourself like me the investigative journalist.

Some know all like that PPP propagandist in Barbados want to say I not a journalist at all but a shock columnist racking my brain every night to find some controversial buzz topic like PPP worst than Burnham which going get me a lot of criticism but I don’t give one hoot because you know why? I got to stir up controversy, get paid and I get home and relax and listen to me Celine Dion music and if any security guard get in my way I gine deal with he.

What you say? The list of the dead down at the Registry? That must be the place too I got to go to register my theory Fretty’s Response Against Unanswerable Debunking (FRAUD) ….I got it here in my pocket. You want to see it? Why you looking at me so? “
JOHN REED
Barbados

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