REALLY AWFUL PRAWN COCK-TALES

Prawnatic

YOUNG PRAWN

An oceanographer, one sunny day,
Decided to study the prawn;
Developing quite an obsession that way,
Took pictures from breaking of dawn
To late in the night,
And still got it right
To get, on the Net,
A lot more pics yet
Of both nymph and nymphet,
So quite a collection was born;
But this sideline from oceanography
Was horribly destined to fail –
He was promptly accused of prawnography,
And so he was hauled off to jail!

Prawnpositioned

PRAWN

“Prawn; co-owns a major bank;
Seeks someone to share it.”
She said, ‘Is this ad. a prank? –
I think I should dare it!’

So she answered it that day;
Quickly was replied:
‘Meet me on the fifth of May –
Durban beach: south-side.’

Eagerly she travelled there,
To the rendezvous;
Looked about her with due care,
Wondering just who …

Came, from sandbank out at sea,
Prawn of goodly sort;
Squinted round perplexedly –
Sight of her he caught!

Love, though, wasn’t going to strike,
For both sets of eyes
Showed their mutual dislike,
Mixed with great surprise.

‘Curse it!’ he said, all forlorn,
‘This is really blown!
You’re a blessed Parktown Prawn*
I just might have known!’

PARKTOWN PRAWN

Snorted she disgustedly,
‘I’m on the wrong wicket –
This romance is all at sea –
Simply isn’t cricket!’ 

© Colonialist August 2007  (Blogs 24.com) October 2013 (WordPress)

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*Very large type of cricket, found particularly in Parktown, Johannesburg