ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

A SINGLE SHOT

A bunch of little tasty bunnies
grazing on that tussock rise;
my trusty old bazooka will
bag one, if they stay still.

I'll do it curried, baked or fried
with onions, carrots, peas and chips.
So now I line the sights just so
and squeeze the trigger nice and slow,

a single shot; one's for the pot ?
Ahh ! missed. Hey! where'd those mongrels go.

Good one Neville

I know a fellow who lived NSW as a kid and he said they shot and ate rabbit all the time. I wonder if kids today would eat wild rabbit. Maybe they would if it was packaged under the name of a popular fast food chain.

Enjoyed it!

Cheers
Dot

So! Fish and chips for tea Neville?

You're a wascally little wabbit

Thanks for the replies Dot and Maureen.

Poetry has that element of metaphor. When I look at the contemporary political scene I reflect on the poetic words of the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah who wrote " Call Pharaoh, King of Egypt " Braggart " the man who missed his moment ".
I've missed a few of my moments too.

Chips are bad, Neville. Very, very bad.

I recently heard that if you ate only rabbit you would become malnourished. I don't know why you would only eat rabbit, but there you go.

Heather

If you were out in the scrub and rabbits were all you could find for food I assume you would be susceptible to " rabbit starvation" as it is called.
Rabbit starvation is caused by lack of fat in the diet, so chips might not be so bad after all.

Ok, chips, but only with rabbit.