Synopsis

The narrative poem opens to reveal a joyful government driver who after ‘thirty-five years of faithful services’ has to ‘today retires’. So glad he is about his retirement that he calls on friends to rejoice with him and he declares that ‘I shall booze and zoom myself home’ because he has for ‘many years’ stops his ‘boozy throat’ from tasting any alcoholic drink ‘in obedience to duty rules and regulations’. He wants to drink many drinks today with friends since he has not tasted something much for the ample years he used in service as a way of abiding by the rules set for him by the civil service under which he worked.

So serious he is to ‘celebrate’ his ‘freedom’ because he is certain that ‘early duty tomorrow holds not’ and so he has to booze to ‘sleep away’ his ‘sufferings’. He believes in jubilating this freedom that makes him ‘a king’ because he is sure that he has no early work or task to attend to earlier as usual tomorrow in the civil service again.

He continues to call on his friends and he is awarded ‘a brand new car’ as ‘an appreciative symbol’ for the diligent duties he performed while in service. He boozes furthermore but he meets an untimely death as he eventually loses the ‘wheels’, ‘vision’ and ‘clear judgment’ and dies in an auto crash as he ‘rest in peace’ after ‘he boomed his brand new car and it sent him home’. His death was as a result of his excessive drinks.