Play Yuh Eh Kno'....

Mih pardner run inside ah Obeah man yard and yell out "Come bless me fadder, muh sins ketch mih". De Obeah man, himself busy casting out de sins of he own on a nice lil brown skin, come out wid a big stick to run he from he yard.

Mih pardner fall on de floor bawlin', he say he dreamin' and he cyah stop dreamin' an' he need somebody to read de dreams so de dreams could stop comin.'

De Obeah man sit dong close close, listenin' to hear what de dreams tell him, an' mih pardner start to bawl, big big man cryin' like a chile spillin' he guts an' sayin' what he seein'.

"Iz one big house i was in, an' iz one setta people dress up nice nice, but vex an fightin.' 

A man dey say was de talkerman come an' sit dong on a big chair an' everybody start talkin' to him one time. A hundred million here, a billion dere, de Fat Arse Canadian and de High Priestess on de run, and de two sugar party moneymen, hiding from de yankee jailer, cooling their heels quiet.

De dead water man giving up the 'water for all man' from de grave one 'secretary' at a time, and Silver Fox real daughter say 'if it ent true iz a lie, but bring de evidence.'

Two old women walkin' by say she fadder woulda be so proud, to see she say dat straight face so.

De bald head man stan' up long an' hard an' eh stop peltin' big, big stone when she self stan' up an' say it was tief stone he was peltin', and de twelfth man, reduced to almost nuttin' just sit dong dere eyes open and watchin' while he own short man pardner have out a pen and is one setta write he writin.' In de dream i ask him what he writin' an' he watch mih hard an' tell mih 'play yuh eh kno'.

A rastaman stan' up an' say he kno sometin' an' de talkerman tell him 'shut up, yuh squattin.'

I look up and see de football star strokin' a monkey from Arima an' like de dead waterman an' de twist mouth lawyer, already know all who tief and who tiefin' again. A fat white man wit' 'power' stand up to defen' a fat black man who dey say gone wid all de poor people money, an' is kicks fuh so and dey dere jus laughin', everybody on one side laughin.'

De bald head man wanted to sen' fuh back up, but he couldnt because dey jam he muslim pardner hard an take way all he land an' some say it was because he black, while others say it was because he stupid an' went playin' in fowl business. He say dey move bad, he was workin' for de powder man, an' iz like black people really shouldn't own nutttin' in dis place, because look ent dey find big big gun in de same dead water man house? Big people eh want to talk about dat one, an' some people say he ent really in dat hole at all at all at all. De police come an' lock de small water man up for havin' big big gun an' small sex pistols, but de judge come an' let him out. Dey ask whay de ass he doin' with all dem gun an' dem and de dead man sit up an' say 'play yuh eh kno'.

In de dream ah went searchin' to find a newspaper an ah  couldnt fine a paper to buy to see what all dis mean, because de newspapermen an dem put away dey pen an gone for a different wuk, big lie before mean big money now, ent? play yuh eh kno.

De banker an' de money man say who to ketch dun get ketch, de rest go get leh go, an' everybody in de whole house start laughin, an' lookin thru de windows ah see two priest kneel down prayin' hard an' plenty plenty people comin' from all sides, more an' more iz only people comin.''

 

He ask de Obeah man to give him a meanin' to all dese dream he dreamin' an' de Obeah man pull out a pipe an matches an' blow one setta smoke and sit dong low before he say 'big fire comin', man eatin' man eatin' man time comin', and de cloth man an' he cousin de powder man done start packin,' because dey dun kno no amount a water could out de fire dat comin'.

Wit dat de Obeah man rock back an' start out laughin, and mih pardner himself had to stop cryin' because he couldn't tell he tears from de rain dat was fallin.'

He walk outside in de heavy rain vex with de Obeah man and, not sure which way to go start talkin' to himself and he hear a voice whisper back "iz mad yuh mad fella, play yuh eh know."