The Facts Of Life
p. 80 · Read in the full issue
ONE day an anthropologist will come As he has done before, And live within the Oopsi tribe Upon the Oopsi shore; And study tattoo marks and things And how the Oopsis cook, And what the little Oopsis wear To get that Oopsi look.
And he will leave the city sounds And toot of car and truck To brave the life of savage tribes Outside the city ruck.
One day an anthoropologist will come And much to our surprise The private life of Oopsi folk He will not analyse.
The Love Life of the Savage His book will not be called With cooking ways and hunting days His mind will be enthralled.
And he will write it carefully And somehow, truth to tell, The work will be a useful one, But—it won’t sell half as well.
Noelle Mason,
Bougainville.