CAFÉ SIX
Try our new
Infestation Menu
It’s the food of the future
so we have created
some fine dining dishes
to keep you updated.
Are you itching to try
mosquito mousse?
or fleas flambé?
Perhaps you’d like
a light stir-fry
of tender glow-worms.
Crusty crickets
would add some crunch
to vary the texture,
served as a side.
(By Jiminy, that’s what
I’d have for lunch.)
Try truffled termites
with pesto sauce
on maggot mash.
Or fruit-fly fritters
with grasshopper gravy
or cicada croquettes
and hairy-bug hash.
Caterpillar curry’s
a dish to-die-for –
a robust feed.
rich and nutritious
(fabulous grub).
If a smaller snack
is all you need
you might like a serve
of buttered fly.
Or a coddled moth.
Perhaps you’d like
cicada soup.
Or a medley of mealworms
cooked in broth
then lightly charred.
Silverfish soufflés
(in moulds and baked twice)
for special occasions
you’ll remember forever
(expensive but nice).
And when you’ve had your fill of these –
a platter of crackers and assorted bees.
© Kate O’Neil
Australian Children’s Poetry 