Grandma's Will Poem by Dennis Adonis

This Guyanese creole language poem is nothing more than a satirical piece of my imagination.

The characters identified in this piece and the entire poem itself is a work of fiction and does not refer to any real person or real occurrences.

My inspiration for this poem came from tying observation to imaginary incidents just for the fun of it.

Anyway, the real story behind the poem is the desires of an old woman to preserve almost all of her material possessions as she cannot accepts the reality that her death would have meant her permanent absence from the face of the earth.

So in a state of denial on her dying bed, she left a will that would be practically impossible to honour in its entirety.

The will made no considerations for her children materially since she professes to wake again sometime soon to be with them.

And if I am to allow insinuations to be drawn from it all, Uncle Francisco is more than likely her old brother who needs the false teeth that Granny Ismay had never wanted in the first place.

The wig for neighbour Shai-doo similarly seems to be of no importance to Granny Ismay as she insisted that the benefactor be given the small one, and not any other.

To ensure that her desires are carried out she issued various threats; hoping that those who heard her instructions will be filled with fear.