Dual Purpose

                             From the local press

RUBY TUESDAY

DUAL PURPOSE

Do not send to me, I beg,

A curious vase-like Easter Egg!

Though it might be rather smart

I could not take it to my heart.

The outsize flower looks quite surreal

And really lacking in appeal.

It's watery insides make a change

But I just find them rather strange.

An Easter Egg should always bulge

With sweets in which I can indulge.

The chocolate type, of course, is best

Although I'd welcome all the rest.

Creamy confections, brown and shiny;

Dollopy-large or cutely tiny,

All are acceptable at Easter,

When I become a chocolate feaster.

(Easter in the Land of Oz

Is really rather odd, because

We're not a race of Religious people,

Gathering beneath the steeple,

And it's not Spring, it's the opposite,

So bunnies and snowdrops just don't fit!

And yet, like the 'followers' we are

We hitch ourselves to a Northern star

And blindly follow those traditions

That quite ignore our own conditions.)

Anyhow, do not, I beg

Send me this type of Easter Egg!

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BALLOON BOY

In Brisbane on most afternoons

This man sells twisty-type balloons.

Right before our very eyes

He twists and bends and loops and ties

Making animals and birds

That leave us almost lost for words.

I don't know if he earns a living

But what a lot of fun he's giving.

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