MARIAN MERRIMENT
Thanks for the enjoyment
your joke brought us;
we felt liberated by each line;
maybe the old lady
communed with Bacchus,
free speech proponent
and god of wine.
HERITAGE HERESY
A curious little girl asked her mum about
how the human race came into existence.
'Well,' explained her mum, 'in the beginning
God created Adam and Eve; they had children;
their children had children and so on, and now
here we are.
Not entirely convinced by this explanation,
the little girl approached her dad on the same
subject. He told her: 'We started out as monkeys.
After a matter of time they began to change shape,
they lost their body hair and became human,
and now here we are.
The little girl was now confused, so she went back
to her mum: 'Daddy says we came from monkeys.'
'Yes dear,' her mum replied.
'When I told you about Adam and Eve, I was telling you
about our side of the family.'
