'The Baboon' Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth

THE BABOON (15)


(A real experience while at Cape Point during a Youth-in-Action Mission in Cape Town, 1975)

The other day I had a shock,
While sitting on a Cape Town rock,
An awful chap got rather fresh,
(He wasn’t even human flesh!)

I turned around and saw him there
White, gleaming teeth and long, black hair,
He stared at me a little while,
I never dared to frown or smile.

He was quite tame but didn’t try
to make a move, and nor did I,
A stranger pair you’ll never see,
than this queer hairy chap and me.

Then this my unexpected friend
Brought our acquaintance to an end,
For he moved away from off my rock,
I think he’d received the bigger shock.

Reproduced by kind Permission
SJA