Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Little lizard...

...on the floor, please don’t bite me toe.

Little grey lizard, two inches, you look so scary at night with you stripy black tail.

Shoo, g’wan, go on, go ‘way. When me was a li’l gyal, people say that if a lizard bite me, it ain’t letting go ‘til thunder roll.

But the way things goin’ with this weather, it don’t look like no boomin’ and rollin’ in the sky gon happen soon…so go on, find you own home, leave me alone.

Ha, I know, I know, I can squash you with one toe. But fears, me dear, ain’t that easy to un-learn, and in one weak second can return quick and burn.

Psst, little grey lizzie, I ain
’t really scared o’ you, was just the memory of fear trying to come back, taunting me...but if you want the truth, I rather be nervous around you than be afraid of things like...



...awk...go awayyyy...

24 comments:

Brass Knuckle said...

quash dat muder suker den you'll fear nutten

Olivia said...

Yaaaaa! Any lizard is better than what I saw last night. Because the weather has got cold (ooh my nose and toes right now...) all the centipedes are coming out of the woodwork. I killed a big one with about 5,000 legs last night in the living room, and then coming back with a wet tissue to pick it up I killed a baby one in the hallway. *shudder*

CG said...

I am afraid I can't help you on the lizard bit because I love them in my garden. There are tiny babies and mama and papa lizards. I love to watch them do push ups in the sun. One daring one used to sleep at the bottom of our automatic garage door and every time I open the door he would hang on for dear life or SPLAT
on the driveway. He would look totally stunned like "eh, eh is wah happen deh" : )

Guyana-Gyal said...

CG, me too, I love to watch 'em in the garden, sunning and staring at me and fighting each other, haha, that is so cute, your garage door one.

Olivia! Centipedes? In New York? For some reason I think of New York as not having things like that...and mosquitoes. 5000 legs? Oh man, it was coming to beg you for a hug to stay warm. Next time, take photos please before you squash 'em.

Hello brass knuckle, welcome...ow, no, it really is harmless, it was so tiny. You shoulda seen the HUGE one in my flat in the Caribbean.

sablonneuse said...

I don't think I'm scared of lizards - but then I've never been bitten by one. However, now that the big spiders are coing in out of the cold that's another story but I couldn't tell it as well as you.

Jacqueline Smith said...

Lizards don't scare me... until they touch me.

Mr. Nighttime said...

It may be just trying to sell you car insurance...

Mr. Nighttime said...

Oh, I'm sorry. I should have made sure I was standing on your right side when I made that comment. ;-)

Guyana-Gyal said...

Ha, I heard you, Mr. Nighttime, it's a gecko...a gecko with a funny accent that annoys one aunt and my mum, the gecko annoys them, that is, not the accent, or maybe both.

Hehe, Jacqueline, you're the first Jamaican I know not scared, hehe.

Sab, truth is, I've never been bitten by one either. As for spiders, well, only tarantulas which I hope don't live in town...and the brown recluse which doesn't live in Guyana, phew.

Mr. Nighttime said...

A quick question for you: When you visit my blog, my tracker shows you coming from Demerara. Is this the same place where the sugar comes from? (Mrs. Nighttime uses Demerara sugar in her PG Tips.)

kfm said...

barraw yuh nephews dem...dem like ben dung an watch insects dem an dem like pick up lizards an watch dem...

zooms said...

"than be afraid of things like..." What you afraid of GG?
I'll get Big T to deal with them.

Mabouya? a lot of people don't like that gecko here but we have plenty of thunder right now so we should be o.k. hee hee.

Lee said...

The only lizards that scare me are crocodiles.

Guyana-Gyal said...

Lee? That you? And your lovely dreadlocks gal? The other day you 'passed through my mind' as we'd say here. Then again today, this morning, as I was sweeping the house. I was thinking about your freelance writing and how is it going. Is this ESP? Well crocs now, that is one big lizard with giant teeth and I'd run too.

Zooms, to be honest, there's not much that I'm scared of, I'm not afraid of changes and jumping in and going for dreams, that sort of thing...it's the little things that scare me, like doctors' needles...oh, there's one thing that terrifies me. Bandits. I think even Big T would be scared of ours, keep him safe and sound in Grenada, Zooms.

KFM, them po' lizards, they must be petrified of my nephews.

Mr. Nighttime, I live in the county of Demerara...when this land was owned by the Dutch, before it became a British colony, it got divided into 3 counties, Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo. Demerara sugar first came from here as far as I know, it's supposed to be have a fat crystal.

Olivia said...

Nooo you did that on purpose, I imagined a big one hugging me!!!

*throws cushions at Guyana Gyal*

Oh, don't put anything past New York. Those house centipedes originated in the Mediterranean and have been here since the 1880s, so with the influx of immigrants in that century, imagine how easy it was to bring them.

I haven't seen so many mosquitoes here though.

Guyana-Gyal said...

Oh dear, Olivia, I'm so sorry. And I was going to say that when that one had hugged you, it would tell all its friends about this lovely, sweet girl, Olivia...then the friends would come to hug you while you sleep. It's a good thing I didn't tell you that, eh?

Whenever anyone talks about 'immigrants' to New York, I think of that movie with the Oirish...

Guyana-Gyal said...

....ooops....Mr. Nighttime, I meant, *it's supposed to be made of fat crystals*

john.g. said...

So long as it's not a Komodo Dragon you'll be ok!

Stephen Bess said...

lol! They used to say the same thing about sanpping turtles -- If they get hold to you they won't let go until it thunders. :)Nice as always, GG.

PI said...

The first time I saw one was in an ancient Greek villa in my bedroom and I thought it was a wall decoration with emeralds for eyes . I reached out to touch it and it skithered out of reach an scared the s--- out of me.
I know they are goodies and eat the baddies but they still make me nervous. It was about the size of my largest finger:)

Olivia said...

Ah! You are so bad, Gyal! :)

Louis-François Pilard said...

So you're not Yguana Gyal?

Hayden said...

I love to watch them, but don't see them much here. They like hot and dry; mostly here I move a rock and see the soft brown bodies of salamanders, hiding in the moist dark.

Lee said...

(Yes, 'tis me, blogger formerly known as Quick. Writing is going well. Am putting more effort into fiction lately. And The Dreaded One is as stunning as ever).

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