Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday, 23 January 2022

The Dani,

"savages" of Indonesian West Papua*,
cultivate over seventy varieties of potato.
They would rather shiver with cold than wear shirts
or anything which covers their shoulders and torsos -
just like the less-cuddly Yanomami of Venezuela.
I guess that they can't bear the sensation of constriction,

which is how I feel about car seat-belts, thus earning
me seven on-the-spot fines but only one conviction.

*Papua means fuzzy-wuzzy or frizzy-haired in Malay.

Sources: Tim Cahill, Redmond O'Hanlon.


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