'Oe Là Là 30/09/09 Poem by Margaret Alice

Exploring the Cape West Coast, bought
a treasure in Malmesbury, a 1958-Psalm
book published by the Dutch Reformed
Church, archaic terms*

Bought Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and
Port at Allesverloren where we found
everything to our taste, blue-gum
honey for my dad

Visited Evita’s Perron where Pieter-Dirk
Uys bought Darling Station, changed it into
a nauseum-museum of Boerassic-Park with
a restaurant where we were entertained with

South African Art Federation* songs, a picture
of Eugene Terblanche stares at you in a bright-
pink toilet, walls covered with Tretchikoff and
Evita’s political pictures

Pieter-Dirk Uys posing as Jay Naidoo, Bill Clinton
and Bishop Tutu, and his masterpiece, the Big
Crocodile himself PW Botha crossing the
Rubicon - Oe là là, Skattie

* Smeltend-Skone Harp- en Sitertone (Psalm 33)
*FAK: Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigings