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Taflats3 [Prelude]


Agooo!
Am333!

 The Ga man calls for attention; his audience respond choirly. Taflats3, the term the kinsmen use to frontier their sentiments of plainess. "O Nii, taflats3 ogba jw3i kraa" Ataa Boye rebuked the Great One dutifully. Almost beautifully. Nuumo Obodai had veered off from the subject matter, sounding like a drunk wol33nyo, a commoner. His integrity is left unmarred anyway. 

Taflats3 is the nkuto you smear on a Sapele wood to a humble lustre; she is the calm anger to the remarks from the middle aged woman with an indecent tongue, who insults anything breathing in her way- The loo shala she sells are even careful not to hit her Ga nerve. She names her ancestors:
Nii Ashitey Akomfra, the red hunter
Nii Tiodo, blofonyo  ni nuu blofo
Ako Adjei, the gold digger
Nii Lamptey Lamptey, nib3 ts3bi Lamptey
K3 Nii Quarshie, akwash)n ts3..
Then flogs uncensored.
- can't wait for the day she meets her meter!

Taflats3 is the quick truce you make with an Ewe girl- Nogokpo is only an egg splash away. Ever wondered why Apple skid past iPhone 9? 'You don't know why is going on!' Ayigbe red has no humour.

Taflats3 is the swerve Banku makes to Ayitey's jabs
She is the "O kafrakafra" the passengers console you with, after bumping your head into the trotro's door frame while watching your crush curl that smile in the back seat.
Oh God those eyes are all the painkillers you need right about now!
She is the airbag that hits you hard in the Adam,
Bites on your apple, then shares with her fellow Eves
yet tells you "Sorry my guy, it's part of the security protocol"

Taflats3 is the back flip and the athletic jumps Akuffo Addo does before giving his State of the Nation's Address. Sometimes I doubt it is my motherland he talks about. Tax on calls, tax on airtime, I wonder how much Neil Armstrong would have paid in his space time- Anyway, let me gulp this beer before I pay for +18 charges.. Taflats3!




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