Chewing chat with you

Is even more fun than going to Addis Ababa Lion Zoo
Or being jet lagged on our way to Bale National Park, or to Gondar to see the beautiful ancient castles
Partly because chewing chat is less harmful than smoking alcohol or drinking cigarettes!
Partly because chat is a cheaper habit than doing all other drugs, at least in Eastern Africa
Partly because you chew chat like a lady, with dignity, you know - slowly and with fewer peanuts than I do
Partly because you don't ask for a Coke every time we chew, which is costly.

I look at you chewing and I would rather look at you thus than watch all movies in the universe
Except possibly for "Flight"; you know how much I love Denzel Washington
And all the movies he does, and how he speaks, and laughs!
Remember how his character struggles with doing drugs in the said movie
But he does an incredible job saving the plane, doesn't he?

Watching all other movies is like being cheated of this marvelous experience of us chewing together
And I would rather chew chat with you forever
And this is why I am telling you about it
(RIP O'Hara and Grandpa wa Mumbi.)

- Kimani wa Mumbi