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Cannibal Paul
Our Intrepid Tour Guide
Leads us Into the Jungle
and
Usually has a more Interesting Day
Today he toted Three Tourists from
Toulouse, two from Toledo
One awning salesman from Melbourne
To Tell them Don’t Lift the Rocks
Poisonous Snakes
Don’t swim in the Ocean
Deadly Jelly Fish
Don’t Breath close to Those Plants
The spores will make you sick
And The Usual – the Rainforest-is-a-Fragile-Thing
Lecture
Cannibal Paul
Usually leads Groups of Dedicated Doctors
into those Remote Spots that we see
in films or Crocodile Episodes
And he Alone can Tell these Important Doctors
What to Do
Because Cannibal Paul
Knows everything – Look at That Iguana
That Flying Fox
Strangler Vine
Flesh Eating Plant – his favorite
Cannibal Paul knew the names
Of the crew who worked on the film
Welcome to Woop Woop
We did not make that up
Cannibal Paul remembers when Port Douglas
Now the Carmel of Queensland
But with more Rain on the Off-Season
was no more than a Bar and Bait shop
Randomly placed at the edge
Of the Bay
He does not live in town
Cannibal Paul earns his money
by searching for Exceptional Dive spots in New Guinea
Using little more than a Machete and a bag of Beetle nuts
and a handful of Cannibal Vowels
He negotiates the access through
the Village, Land and People with
suspicious diets
The best way
he explains
To negotiate with Cannibals
Bring a bag of beetle nuts to share
eat some yourself (nasty things)
and sit and chat endlessly
about everything except the business at hand
He always secured his contract
One can’t help but wonder what a Bad Day
Is like in the Cannibal Jungle.
He did not say
Here
We pull up to a stretch of flat green tucked
Against the thick Density of the Forest
This is the Most Unusual Best Ice Cream
for only $4.00 for three scoops
Cannibal Paul has never married.
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