Mama Goose - SA Style
Mama Goose – SA Style is a selection of rhymes, poems and limericks and cartoons inspired by Mother Goose herself but updated a little and infused with South African’s wacky sense of humour.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
The Baldy Headed Man from South Africa
There is a baldy headed man from South Africa
With pretty blue eyes and a pink budgerigar
To get thin he recommends a dish of lentils and rice
and a medley of expensive tidbits to make it nice
Now most South Africans think he is totally (de)mental
For anything without red meat makes them quite temperamental
But I have some pretty good advice
to make this dish delicous at half the price
By adding something perhaps Oriental but a bit more experimental
Now don't you go getting all sentimental
I'm not talking dogs or cats
or sweet and sour sugar cane rats
Something more delicate, I'm thinking head lice
with maybe just a dash of allspice
Or cockroaches flambéed in Grandpa's best brandy and a dollop of cream
Could perhaps become a connoisseur's dream
Crunchy crickets fried in lard
can so easily be found in your backyard
Freshly caught barbers baked in clay
Please don't stop me I'm getting carried away
A boomslang, a mamba, a rinkals could be dangerous
They are after all rather poisonous
But what about rain spiders or bobbejaan spinnekoppe
Gently sautéed with soetpatats and viskoppe
Handled with care
They could be good fare
What do you mean this food on queue
doesn't quite do it for you?
I'm sorry I do apologize
I didn't mean to trivialize or traumatize
nor demoralize
I was just trying to be nice,
just thought I could show you how to optimize
Okay, okay I'm on my way out
You don't have to shout
You gave me quite a turn you gave me a fright
Good-bye, nighty night
Shoo! some people are sensitive
But tell me where do YOU live?
I have some brilliant ideas
Are you ready to hear this? Are you all ears?
Copyright © Audrey Paterson 2008






