A POLICEMAN'S LOT . . .

by George Held

 

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Forget about getting a job as a police officer 
in Indonesia's Papua if you have had your penis enlarged.

Coppers who would serve in Papua

Mustn’t grow their genitalia:

A penis enlarged by wearing a gourd,

Which stretches it mightily groundward,

Or wishfully wrapped in the leaves

Of the gatal-gatal (“itchy”) tree

So it swells as if stung by a bee,

Is irregular paraphernalia

And will make applicants, inter alia,

Unfit as personae non grata.


George Held has collected many of his New Verse News poems in The News Today.
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