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doek and the devil
Saturday, 20 December 2008 10:59 amThe Billboard Poet is getting a bit frisky for the festive season. Yesterday:
THE DOEKS OF HAZARD!
And a few weeks back:
THAT'S THE WAY THE DOEKIE CRUMBLES!
For non-Saffricans, a doek is a woman's headscarf, worn largely by black and Afrikaans ladies of the more matronly persuasion. I am now plagued by the necessity for imagining endlessly-ramifying scenarios in which plump, comfortable, Afrikaans or Xhosa ninja ladies in doeks perform a variety of unlikely and probably criminal acts.
This is also generating helpless flashbacks to an incident in my childhood featuring the reaction of a Shona matron to the sight of one of my dad's peregrines, hooded and sitting on the back of the car seat, as was their wont. She burst out laughing and insisted on calling all her friends to see the "shiri with a doek!" ("Shiri" is the Shona for bird). I should add for the record that a leather falconry hood, while tending to make falcons look slightly silly, looks nothing at all like a doek.
THE DOEKS OF HAZARD!
And a few weeks back:
THAT'S THE WAY THE DOEKIE CRUMBLES!
For non-Saffricans, a doek is a woman's headscarf, worn largely by black and Afrikaans ladies of the more matronly persuasion. I am now plagued by the necessity for imagining endlessly-ramifying scenarios in which plump, comfortable, Afrikaans or Xhosa ninja ladies in doeks perform a variety of unlikely and probably criminal acts.
This is also generating helpless flashbacks to an incident in my childhood featuring the reaction of a Shona matron to the sight of one of my dad's peregrines, hooded and sitting on the back of the car seat, as was their wont. She burst out laughing and insisted on calling all her friends to see the "shiri with a doek!" ("Shiri" is the Shona for bird). I should add for the record that a leather falconry hood, while tending to make falcons look slightly silly, looks nothing at all like a doek.
