ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Adam's Rib

Man was feeling randy. He required a sheila, quick.
Said God, "I'll take a bit of Man, and make a bonzer chick.
I'll take a small piece of his heart. Oh no, that will not do.
The hole will cause his heart to leak. His soul will then shoot through.

"I'll take a sample of his brain. No, that will cause a stink,
For he will lose all reason, and ability to think.
His liver, then. No, no, that's wrong. My mind is in a fog.
He needs his liver so that he can drink a lot of grog.

"What about his kidneys? No, they help with alcohol.
He'll need his kidneys badly when he's really on a roll.
A piece of spleen or gut or lung? It seems too high a price.
A little rib? That's surely not too great a sacrifice!"

And so it came to be that Adam's rib produced his mate,
And God's experiment, he thought, was world class. Just first rate!
I've thought about this often. It has quite a fishy smell.
I reckon, with the rib, he took the other stuff as well!

© Stephen Whiteside 01.04.2015

Spot on Stephen.


Got it in one

Bob

Now there's a different take on things! Enjoyed this Stephen

Thanks, Catherine.

Oh thanks Bob as well

Bob

Yes, I was thinking about that, Bob. I decided I didn't really need to thank you - we were in agreement, and that was that. See, I was paying you a big compliment!

Oh and I thought you and Catherine had a thing going on !


Cheers mate no thanks needed I know what ya mean.


Bob

God should have just stuck with 'sugar and spice and all things nice'...I think my partner got a fair share of spleen in there somewhere