Sidney Beck Poet Couplet

Mum Explains Grasshopper Forebears

MUM  EXPLAINS GRASSHOPPER  FOREBEARS

Your daddy? Well, he had no money ,
Was skinny and boney, but just gorgeous, Honey,
A real grasshopper’s grasshopper.
Spent his days, unafraid to come a cropper,
Hiding on a cornstalk in a field (you probably heard)
Listening out for combines or a hungry bird.

Your papa learned to hop...junior grade..right and proper
Then was  quickly promoted  to senior hopper,
But oh dear  he went on  vacation in Mexico 
One of those impulse things, you know :
Free ride in a truck, camping under tarpaulin,
But ended up as a  chapuline*

His brother  Joe was another hunk  -
Defied the catcher  nets – he had *****.
Fancied him myself (before your dad),
But he was too wild, adventurous, real bad.
Most famous member of our family was Uncle Joe  - 
(Now under glass in the botanical museum,  Ohio.)
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Note

Chapuline   is a delicacy of grasshoppers   - eaten in Mexico

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