POLICE STATEMENT 1

POLICE STATEMENT   I   A money lender went to the station To complain and to make a case Against his debtor for many years After he defaulted on the principal And the monthly takings he made   So he woke up early in the morning Laid wait to catch, in a hide and seek He asked an interpreter to go with him To help him in what he would say At the counter of the local police post   He explained to the officer in charge In the best English he could speak This replayed game of cat and rat With articulations and gestures Of when his debtor sighted him   Enye cyclotech Ami jorang Enye kpung kpung Ami bai The interpreter inferred   He dodged this way, I cornered And surrounded him that way He bumped into me I caught him So, a case file was opened