Mango - Sarathy Korwar, Zia Ahmed

Mango

Man go write something

And white man go, I don’t know

Maybe it needs a symbol to represent the exotic

Something like

A mango

Man go into bar

And barman go

«Why the long mango?»

Snap poll

Which racist do you want on your banknote

Give you the default sitar solo

A.K.A.

Indian banjo

Ah god, elections

Gotta hang low

This guy’s telling me to go back home

Type NW2, what does your sat-nav show?

Are you indigenous though?

Are you indigenous though?

If not, you better be vigilant bro

Or what?

I think that I’m invisible, no

I think that I’m a mythical creature

That working class black, that working class brown

We don’t seem to have any worth in your towns

I know in the old days, everything was okay

Saw it in a documentary called Mary Poppins

Supercalifragilisticexpiali

Mango

So, Mr. English man

Which part of England do you grow them leaves that make your famous English

breakfast tea?

English like a cheeky Nando’s

English like cutting through your country as if it were a mango

When it come to hear us, people in power seem to cut their ear off

Like Van Gogh, or Van Go

Power corrupts, you already killed Duncan

You might as well kill Banquo

Scaramouch, scaramouch, will you do the fandango?

Are you gonna bang, are you gonna bang though?

No

Islamism is the new communism

Shit, it’s time to reboot Rambo

The skies are grey, today they won’t have drones

Today they still have homes

Nah, I need to have a word with the Espíritu Santo

The meaning of life has gotta be a series of portmanteaus

Jabberwocky, never straight negro y blanco

I hold a baby in my arms

She don’t weigh much more than a box of mangoes

She smiles, I have hope

I have love, I have life

And I will fight for days and nights

That taste sweeter than