626 : Jemima Paddy Duck

Idle thoughts from a Balinese rice field…

Jemima Paddy Duck

(Apologies to Beatrix Potter).

This is the story of a duck

Who lived amongst the rice.

She grew quite fat on worms and snails

And life was rather nice.

But for every ying there is a yang,

For light there is a shade;

A balance in the universe –

What grows must too decay.

And so the duck with the lucky life

Met the axe’s force

And appeared upon the dinner plate

With rice and hoi-sin sauce.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013

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