By Kole Omotoso
It started small, like
all big things.
Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make
the Gobi Desert
And the sea by the
strand.
As part of his settlement Mr. Trouble married
Miss Rachelle Palaver. Miss Palaver was a gentle woman and although she now
became Mrs. Trouble she remained an oasis of peace and tranquility in the midst
of Palaver and Trouble. She wrote her name as Mrs. Rachelle Palaver/Trouble. It
was later corrected as Mrs. Rachelle Palaver-Trouble. But this is not the
matter of this piece, but for later on. For now, it is 2018 and the coming
federal elections of 2019. Not about them either but about what it caused to
happen in the country – carpet crossing.
