Clairvoyant Séances For Zombies Poem by Margaret Alice

Recipe for Writing Soap Opera
According to Jeanne Goosen

Create an anorexic heroine, a tall handome
hero with passionate eyes, a surgeon by
preference, appealing to motherliness
by fighting his way out of poverty

Insert two troublemakers, Beulah and Ursula,
forced to stay together by sharing knowledge
of dirty secrets; a few criminals, three senior
citizens, an adorable child or two

Choose happy names like Maybelline and Claude
for the hero and heroine, add an eccentric called
Patrys Polokwane writing fairytales about Russian
involvement in the Anglo Boer war

Add theme music from clairvoyant séances for
zombies, conclude with the fairytales being
published under the name of Patroesj
Polekwanski – over and out

Ready for the next one...

Jeanne Goosen Article “Russiese Feëverhale uit die Anglo
Boere-oorlog', Rapport - Boeke,2 August 2009, p.3