SOCA LAND is written for the prompt today at
Midweek Motif ~ Food
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare [excerpt]
ACT I SCENE I. DUKE ORSINO's palace.
Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending
DUKE ORSINO
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die...
❧✿❧
[Exit all - Enter : A New Day]
SCENE II SOCA LAND aka T&T
Soca, is my name
No one can call me tame
I feed on the hips of the young
Not so young, and think young
Carnival is my meal
Sumptuous hearty yield
I know how to make dem whine
Without grapes, i make dem whine
[Exit A New Day: Enter Bacchanalia]
SCENE III: The Road Monday and Tuesday
Party all day all night
Feathers and plumes, plumed feathers
days of Carnival --
fun in the sun, hot hot dust
in yuh face, but who? who cares
[Exit Bacchanalia: Enter incense and ashes]
SCENE IV: Sobriety
Ash Wednesday comes
Pigeon peas pelau left overs
from Tuesday?
the family meal is served
with ashes on the fore head
food for thought -
on the high voltage wires
piece of a costume
SOCA LAND © gillena cox 2016
Process Note
Soca - genre of songs born in Trinidad and Tobago, a mix of Soul and Calypso; sung and also played by Steelbands
T&T -Trinidad and Tobago
dem - them
yuh - your
pelau - a rice and pigeon peas cook up can be done with or without meat
ashes - on the Wednesday, starting the Lenten season for Catholics, ashes is applied to the forehead of the congregation, by the priest, or appointed ministers; at Holy Mass.
