Walk Too Fast, Walk Two Time

If you walk too fass you walk two time
Dis proverb prove true eight time outa nine

For nuff smaddy weh palawash dem job

Soon realize dat a dem own time dem rob

Now Miss Mavis inna one big rush

An no hab time fi put on di final touch

Shi was baking bullas fi sell

Someting shi could do very well.

But tedday shi wake up late

An shi hurry up an bake

So dat shi could reach by five

Wen har customers would arrive

Well of course shi reach  in time

But shi neva meck a dime

For afta one smaddy taste di cake

Im seh it give im bellyache

So Miss Mavis lose har sale

An har cake stay till dem stale

Afta dat shi haffi teck great pain

Fi bake good cake fi sell again

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Patricia Whittle is Jamaican. She has published two books namely Mi Waan Fi Publish A Book: An Anthology of Jamaican Dialect Poems and Johnny, Mass Tom and Fatal Error: Three Short Plays for the Jamaican Audience. She is a librarian and a teacher of English Literature.