Keep Off, I am Taken

I am taken, so keep off
Son of Lazarus.
Can't you see my phallange colonized by a gold ring?
It was planted hereon
To mark sphere of influence
By he who adores best-- in hunger and satiation
So keep off, I am taken.

I belong to a big man with a Benz
Bossy and big-bellied, like a woman heavily pregnant
Owner of power-- top and bottom;
Who scatters light and darkness in unequal measure
Then roughly rides me without rest
So keep off, I am taken.

See, he's no small man
To eat termites with boys along village paths
Be silly not to think you can topple him
Dear skinny and miserable man
Who can't even afford an iron horse;
Dear skinny and miserable man
Who can't even scrap himself clean
And stop eating leaves like a rabbit.
So keep off, I am taken.

I am ain't so cheap
to be eaten by your type
I am ain't abating
to be spat by men and licked by boys
whose spears wane upon kissing my lips
And wastefully vomit butter.
I've strong man with stamina
Whose holy hoe digs holes hollow, without waning!
So keep off, I am taken.

This razor I can't give you
Even if you cry oceans of tears
What if you stupidly slice your skin?
The blood with which you're to buy our freedom will be wasted
What if you collapse whilst doing the thing?
Boy, I don't want to be accused of murder
I've nothing to smuggle into stomachs
of men in black robes with rare smiles...
To lie truthfully, and my freedom safeguard
So keep off, I am taken.

Dare not draw near
Boy, I'll crush your balls
and ruin your sperm store!
Let not someone starve to death
Because I broke the hand to feed her;
Let not someone's shamba grow bushy and thorny
Because I broke the hoe to plough it
If today I pluck your penis
So keep off, I am taken.

(c) wafula p'khisa
-Thigh of an Elephant-