Anansese Once when Ananse was a likkle bwoy he was

1. Lass night about 2:45 well well well before the little black bell of the walk of my electronic clock cd wake me – aweakened by gunshatt -the eyes trying to function open too stunned to work out there through the window & into the dark with its various glints & glows: mosquito, very distant cockcrow, sound system drum, the tumbrel of a passing engine somewhere some/where in that dark. It must have been an ear/ring’s earlier sound that sprawled me to the window. but it was TWO SHATTS -silence- not evening the dogs barking or the trees blazing & then a cry we couldn’t see of do do do nuh kill me

2. Anansese Once when Ananse was a likkle bwoy he was goin on & im see PingWing Bramble wid a rat. Him fight Ping Wing tek way de rat so carry it heng up in de kitchen. When him was gawn Granny come een & eat off de rat. When Ananse come back, im cyaan fine de rat. Ananse seh, ‘Come come Granny gi me me rat me rat come from PingWing PingWing come from God.’ Granny she, ‘A cyaan gi yu back de rat because a heat it off, but tek dis knife’ Ananse go awn until im see a man was cuttin cane wid- out a knife. Im she, ‘Man, ow come yu cuttin cane wid- out a knife an I ave knife?’ The man tek Ananse knife start cut de cane an bruk de knife Ananse she, ‘Come come Man gi me me knife mi knife come from Granny Granny heat mi rat mi rat come from PingWing PingWing juk mi hann mi hann come from God’