Caribbean Terrace

I remember when I first came down to the Terrace to visit Lily.
Not that I thought it was Beverly Hills or Havendale
but that I accepted it as a Upper Middle Class Area.

If the Terrace ever was more than a dung heap
I never saw it.

Over the years Lily had betrayed an unhappiness.
I never realised being down here was that kind of curse.

The lure is the water and the electricity and the
garbage collection and a real address.

The draw back is living amongst souless animals.

Chisolm, who is better referred to as Chisfuck is the
paradigm of the miserable Old Bwoy.

When he can get it up he's over there by 'Miss Whyte' as
he calls her, the big fat whoring mampy.

Jamaicans are so funny, they betray themselves so easily.
Calling a pig 'Miss Whyte' as if she's worthy of respect
means she's giving him a wash off..

As Whyte is a very cheap slam she's got her customers.

There's Tinkimyoung...
this old bwoy drives a pick up blasting rap music like
he isn't dragging fifty.

Having see the young men leave their radios blasting
when they go in to slam a slut, he does too.

So for the thirty minutes he will be be slamming the slob
the radio in the cab has to be on high so that everyone
can know that Tinkimyoung is rolling on the Mampy.

I made enough noise about it so that even a moron
like Dawn Whyte would know that leaving the radio
blasting is a sign a man is slamming a slut...not his gal,
not anyone of value but a big and he knows she's a
pig and he needs everyone on the street to know he
KNOWS she's a pig.

Then there's Ugliman. Now this guy is really ugly.
She sent him up in the ackee tree last year, I
called the police.

His mouth is the loudest. He's 'one of the girls' so when
there's a Convocation of Chimpies next door, he's the
only male.

Being ugly, as ugly as the Mampy, but young, he gets to
be her toyboy. He understands that when another car
is parked in the drive, he waits.

Many times, when Chisfuck comes for his washoff, there
are cars in the drive, and he gets angry. He'll climb onto
the roof of this house to steal mangoes, having told
Melanie what a good friend he was to her father; (I never
saw him) and when Melanie came down here last time he
made himself useful.

Useful as any weasel looking for a free dollar.

He likes to send the 'gardener', a moron with a weed wacker,
who doubles as the 'plumber', so that he can split the cost
with him.

I've had my run ins with him.

On the other side is Barber. He captured a house, rents out
every square inch...which is what Lewin and Chisfuck desired
for this house.

Barber is a horny old bwoy wants to have sex with anything
female. He has a suffering wife and whore daughter who
screws his tenants and creates trouble.

He's another one likes to show ownership of this property.
He's planted in the small fenced area, along the gully sides,
he's really pathetic.

The area would have been emptied if the people weren't so
stupid. Now they wait for the next storm.