WHIFF OF FAST BUCK!!!

I come again with play. Wise-men of my community, kindly come out, and enjoy my gist. I slept in the night. I had a dream. My dream encompasses two brothers who were competing to become king. The senior was highly ingenious, but poor. The younger was exceedingly rich, but lacked ingenious. The senior said: “I’m the rightful person to be made the king. I’ve got the ingenuity; hence would be able to govern the community just like Solomon did his community in Israel.” His younger brother objected: “No, you are not. It is my right. I’ve got money. I’m influential; hence, would be able to drive the economy of our community to prosperity.” The senior brother, again, retorted: king, unlike rich man, needs to be ingenious. It is the only attribute that can propagate the cohesion of the community for peace and tranquility. Without peace, no king could drive the economy into prosperity.” As this tussle goes on, the king-makers summoned them, saying: “we, the king-makers, are conscious of each of your desire to be made the king. However, we seek not to be prejudicial to neither of you. So, here is a first examination to ascertain your intelligence, as it is a prerequisite for somebody who would be made the king to be intelligent. We want for each one of you to go and bring for us what you suppose is the sweetest part of animal meat.” The younger went, and soon came back with the heart of the animal. He said the heart is the sweetest in animal meat. His elder brother, unlike him, went before the elders (the wise-men) to seek counsel. When he got to the elders, he knelt before them saying: “please, elders, the king-makers want for me to bring the sweetest part of animal meat. Please, I beseech thee, tell me: what is the sweetest part of animal meat?” The elders told him, saying: “rise, go give to the king-makers the tongue. The tongue is the sweetest part of animal meat.” Surprised by the suggestion of the tongue as the sweetest part of the animal meat! He enquired to know why it is the tongue that is the sweetest: “Please, elders, why is the tongue the sweetest?” The elders said to him: “the tongue is use to profess happiness. The tongue is filled with praises. It elevates people, brings good tidings, and joy. The tongue is used to sweet talk people into believing anything.” He thanked the elders, and went back, and gave the tongue to the king-makers.

The king-makers though were marveled at the ingenious of the elder boy, but they didn’t let the commotion known to either of the contestant. Alright, boys! The king-makers said: “you are now welcome to the second part of your exam. We would like for you to go again, and bring for us the bitterest part of the animal meat.” The younger one, as is wont of a child, went and brought forth the bile of the meat. He said: “Herein, I’ve brought for you the bile of the animal meat. The bile is so bitter, to such an extent if it spills on any part of the meat, it renders the meat inconsumable.”  “That is interesting, boy!” The king-makers cued.

His elder brother, again, went back to the elders for further counsel. He arrived at the feet of the elders, knelt, and said: “my elders, I’ve come again with another trouble. Kindly forgive my disturbance of your peace. The king-makers have again sent me to go bring forth the bitterest part of the animal meat. I beseech, elders, tell me: what is the bitterest part of the animal meat?” The elders said: “son, go give, again, the tongue to the king-makers. The tongue is the bitterest part of meat. Just as the tongue is the sweetest, so also, is it the bitterest. The tongue could elevate a man, and could also degrade a man. He thanked the elders, and went back, and gave the tongue to the king-makers. He scaled the hurdle! Well, not now, my friend. He soon came to grieving. It should have been the prerogative of the king-makers to declare him winner, and crowning him; but unfortunately, in this world, you never can suppress the whiff of a fast buck. Poor man continually lies among the failures. Our world, this world, is in the pocket of the rich. The king-makers subjugated decorum, declared, and crowned the younger brother.

No! The people rose in protest against the decision of the king-makers. The agitation of the people reached a crescendo, to the extent the elders saw it fit to intervene and rectified the anomaly; but, the fast buck on the highway is again ready to dance nude. Lo, and behold it flashes its whiff again, and the struggle to entrench a decorum, ever since, has remain a vain shadow. Hah, hah, hah! The elders joined to become like children. Not even so, the Holy Bible had said: “a man shall become like children?”

 =DEOLA