Thoughts of a minibus traveller

   The *X*@# horses.. oh @##  Inhale for 4. This is why you don't like animals and you don't have pets  Hold for 5: Universe says it dont matter, you have some duty to them  Exhale for 4: Lef dem, nothing you can do now.. let dem eat and mess up is same clean you gotta do ..   Inhale for 4: Shoots, rubbish truck coming.. gotta drop everything and go now  Hold for 5; I wish i could get some proper food for dem.. the neigh you hear is not de horse laughing at you  exhale for 4: Cleaning up after them is making up for the prayers you didn't say this morning..

  "You is a customer" the woman I call Aunty tells me as she puts the four oranges wrapped in the string netting in my hand. 'Tek dis for $400 .. is $500 but you give me 4" and I take it as she then continues the weekly check in on health and wellness which is why I don't really worry about the price of oranges or anything else which she sells because is a nice connection to talk about random things. She sells two sometimes three varieties of limes - seedless, rampoor, long - but I don't need any because I have juice left over from last week's exchange. I am nervous about buying the oranges as I can't tell if they are  nice or not. I have had dry ones when I thought the skin showed that they might be nice and juicy, and had nice and juicy ones when I was worried that the they would not because skin rough and so. Can never tell until you cut really as it is with the other thing I took on thinking I was okay for it and then realised as I got deeper in...

"I sorry uncle" the man says as he picks up the green mangoes under the tree and moves under the house ...  "I lef dem fuh you"  Wake up and hear leaves rustling and the thud on the ground. Thinking that yeah, somebody in the yard, in the tree. Check the time. 430am. Get up, put on spectacles and look through window.  Hear the thud and see in the ambient light put up for security , the mangoes as they fall and the white salt bag on the ground. There is another bag in the tree.   Wondering if it is Sunny the other thief who thinks everything in the area belongs to him. Curious.  Earlier the Sunday, another man had come looking for green mangoes .. 'you know de fasting ting.. navratra.. de food need lil sour fuh guh down'..  Go empty bladder and come back. Look through the window. Should I open door and go out with cutlass and so on and chop up the man?   "Ow man , you could ah come day time an ask me, i would ah give you" .. talking to the t...