Mengistu Lema
By Wegesha
Blog de kolotemari got a request sometime last week to post a classic POEM by Mengistu Lema. We found it very hard to put aside our big egos as self proclaimed poets and give way to a literary giant until we picked up our bible. The Kolo Bible (its first edition came out shortly after the King James Bible) has only two commandments:
1)Better late than never
2)Thou shall give respect when respect is due
Normally, given the slightest leeway, we would first bore you to death with biographical information before giving away the poem. We found no need to do this in Mengistu’s case because his autobiography has been published. He started writing it while he was a student in London and for some unknown reason he stopped writing it after his death (our blog is investigating this strange phenomenon). As the quintessential Mengistu, he wrote it to be a fast read, entertaining, funny and informative. We highly recommend it. Below is the title of the book.
