The News in Verse: Free Falling Cedi

By Isaac Karikari (bkkarikari@yahoo.com)

Free falling cedi

Ceding power to the pound

Losing ground to the dollar

The exchange rate

And the forex rape

Is as obscene as porn.

Gh is getting pawned.

The economy’s gone galloping

Maybe someone lost the reins,

The bridle and the bit.

Bit by bit we fall

Until we hit the mark of the pfennig?

The economy is in a thicket

And sasabonsam (satan) is in the thick of it

So the ArchBishop prayed

But got sprayed - with many invectives.

Has the Church preyed?

Is the odour of our expensive perfumes nauseous?

And are our d-alliances (alliance and dalliance) for Jerusalem pilgrimages

Making us obnoxious in the public square?

Is the church strutting towards oblivion?

Or Irrelevance?

Some 20 something million theologians

Wield views of their own

Forged in the Gh crucible

Everything is physical and fiscal

They seem to believe

So no spiritual escapism

or PR for JM.

The men and women of his legion

Will tell you Kwesi prattles and Gabby gabbles,

Spurn Doctor B’s diagnosis and Paa Kwesi’s prescriptions

Of the many alternatives they won’t even accept Baako (one).

Hence the Free falling cedi

Ceding power to the pound

Losing ground to the dollar.

Tis as obscene as porn

But that is what we spawned

In a (so far) spurious Better Ghana.