ONE BUS FROM THE GOVERNMENT
I promised that my next blog post would focus on the songs and albums that influenced 2025, but a new idea rose in my mind while I was on the road. It came to me the very instant I boarded a trotro from Circle to Dansoman SSNIT Flats. I reached Circle around 7PM and joined a crowd moving in every direction. Some people were returning from work, others heading home from the market, and a few like me were simply passing through. The long queue in front of the buses reminded me of a phrase from the Canex writing workshop. There had been a list of our names and buses picking us up, and someone pointed out the line that read: one bus from the government for the 11am departure people. We laughed that day as if nothing in life was complicated. Standing in the queue today, the joke returned with a new feeling. In a way, all of us are passengers of the state, waiting to be taken to our stops after giving so much of ourselves to a system that barely knows our names. Or perhaps the idea ...
