MEERCATS

MEERCATS

What’s the fascination with meercats?

All they are is flea ridden rats.

They’re on our TV’s at all times of day,

On billboards and buses, they find a way.

To have you believe they’re from Leningrad.

But, in fact they’re stuffed toys, how very sad,

That car insurance is going off the scale.

The incentive to buy… A Sergei doll in the mail.

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Why Russian anyway? When it’s life on African soil,

Scratching the earth for bugs, that’s real toil.

Dogs sell insurance too; a monkey went into space,

A horse was once Pope, animals all over the place.

Why not go the whole way? It maybe just too sinister,

Have a goldfish captain England and a snail as prime minister.

So, about my car insurance, I don’t care what meercats say.

I’ll not buy from them, but, a warthog might just be ok!

Phil Hall    November 2011