Imagine an ostrich who turns litterbug: she digs a cosy hole in the ground and stuffs it with everything she no longer wants — from mountains of plastic bottles to expired pills and toxic sludge. Michèle Bernard’s playful lyrics list the trash with nursery-rhyme rhythm, inviting us to chuckle while we picture the bird preening over her secret landfill.
The joke soon twists into satire. When a tiny mosquito scares her, the ostrich does what ostriches are (wrongly) famous for: she buries her head… right into her own garbage heap. Bernard’s wink to our world is clear. Like the ostrich, wealthy societies hide from the mess they create, even proposing to ship the "cochonneries" off to Africa in the name of being "civilised". Beneath its catchy melody, the song is a cheeky yet biting call to face our waste, own up to environmental harm, and refuse the easy escape of dumping problems on someone else.