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Dear Mausica family,
What a joy to receive your email every week. Oh Mausica! Can we ever forget you? I well remember the carnival and the calypsos. My first year I sang in the preliminary round. It was after the elections in Mausica and I sang:"They refuse to choose a beautiful MSC."
Some lines were:
They refuse to choose a beautiful MSC
Just look at we
An MSC whose members were not nuts
Just observe us
An MSC whose members were full of charm
None of them could beat back Kelvin Subran."
For the finals I sang "Mamas without Papas"
I won't go there ,save to say, I nearly got a cut tail that night and had to be escorted to my hostel by Noel T. and Ken Parmasad.
Once broke down the Central Bank singing a calypso about Chief Justice De Labastide. He had come to the Bench with all these reforms and talking about no more delays in the justice system. He nearly collapsed when I sang my calypso. He turned beet red as I was singing about him throwing his speech back in his face. One day we met at Hyatt and he introduced me to his daughter Juliet telling her I was his favourite calypsonian. That calypso was named "Now for Now Court" and the lines went like this:
A man rape today
There must be no delay
Before the evidence dry
This case must be try.
Coincidentally, this morning I was getting ready for work and I began to compose a calypso in my head. I usually compose for my grand nieces and nephews. But I am always late. Christophe Grant told me I should compose for the female calypsonians, but I compose when the spirit moves me. I did one for the present Principal of UWI, Cave Hill, at the end of a course in gender I did there and she told me Rex Nettleford loved it. She got a calligrapher to write it over and had it framed on her wall. It was called, " Ah Reconstructing Masculinity." I also sang it at Law School here and won the staff competition.
I leave T&T for my grandsons christening in Florida which takes place on Sunday. See you all after Carnival. Be safe everybody. I have a whol eheap of things to do before I leave and allyuh go and send me down Memory Lane and I lose my way.
Love you all,
Hazel (Alias Lady Observer).
Hazel
Hazel Thompson-Ahye 70
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