On safari

The eighth wonder of the world boasts its banality

Tame wildebeest clogging the clean concrete of Mbagathi

Which arrows smartly past low and high rise tenement

It coerces the zooming traffic to slow down and look

At humanity swarming from Kibera’s troubled slumberland

To uncertain industry in Industrial Area

And the motorist’s camera has long-since seen this jaded parade

Far too often for it to remain a juicy titbit

At tonight’s bush dinner table or on Face book

Or to goad righteous anger when State functionaries

In their pubescent dalliance with 2030 Vision

Seek to herd this wildlife into Nairobi National Park

Faraway from the gaze of well-heeled elites …

The sort of innovative strategic thinking, you

Explain to your inquisitive daughter

Which may compete with the Mara’s majestic beauty

And so your imaginative chic daughter twits

Amazed at this constitutional moment’s flaunted profundity

Perplexed by the nightmare of human wildebeest migrating at sundown –

As they trudge on safari from hungry toil at a Processing Zone

To far-off scenic home that’ll assuage their entitlement to shelter

With monkey and hyena lining the dirt route

To their wretched idyll in the Park.