BLACK MAMBA CONVOY

Gun totting ugly , sad looking and ever ready militant operatives clad in green combats squatted on the hems of military vans, holding tightly on long automatic rifles with a deathly grip ready to snipe at anything presumed threatening in their way.

The black mamba convoy slithered slowly into this congested street like a huge python wriggling out of an old shrine. It made a razor cut ear splitting wail of a widowed young mother at her youthful husband’s funeral wake.

A fat and chubby hand of one Occupant protruded through a tiny opening of a black tinted window and is waving to the frail figures of aged slum dwellers ululating for the black mamba motorcade and its Occupants .Fervent foot soldiers danced to the sharp wailing tenor of the motorcade now swallowing miles towards somewhere.

Skyscrapers have since dilapidated, their old paint peeling off like teeth literally rotting out of their mouth. Engines growled along as rear tires bite through layers of decaying banana peels and long forgotten dirty bins.

Another mob of old aged hermits chanted praise incantations as the siren wail faded into a thick mass of decaying concrete jungle sagging with both mortar and human vibe .

The expensive black mamba convoy crawled through gangs of black market rascals , clatters of baton stick dashed tomatoes , makeshift hair salons , squashed cardboard boxes of pornographic films discs and heaps of sex boosters displayed at empty retail stores entry points.

We toyi- toyed behind as the black mamba negotiated its way along streams of raw sewage. It splashed sewer juices to the weary looking beggars and to swarms of worked out commercial sex workers roaming the streets in a hushed hunt of their easy prey .

It passed through rubbish dumping sites, where a convoy of city scavengers are always hunting for remains. It made a comical moan and the hunters whistled back , gobbling chunks of decomposed meat, gulping hungrily into stale remains of Coca-Cola labelled half empty bottles. It wailed again. They waved back in high spirits as they dug into rubbish hills with vulture’s zeal.The black mamba belched out a loud fart of exhaust smoke ,the plumes shrouded another swarm of malnourished humans also hunting in other rat infested dumbing site. That dumping site was rich with new rubbish, fresh boxes of Pizza, MacDonald’s burgers and many of these hunters licked their thirsty tongues into expired yoghurt plastic tins.