HAS ANYONE EVER SAID TO YOU?

 

Has anyone ever said to you?

“Try and walk in someone else’s shoes”

Well, I find that for me the concept is

Quite problematic to my views

After all it would have to depend

Greatly on exactly whose shoes

WHEREVER MY FATHER IS RIGHT NOW # 1

 

Wherever my father is right now

I’m sure he’s looking down

But assuredly he is not dead

He’s just on the roof stealing lead

ARE YOU WEARING A STICK-ON TATTOO?

 

Are you wearing a stick-on tattoo?

Is that really the best you could do?

What? You were too scared to get proper ink?

What will the rest of the chapter think?

I ORDERED THE TARKA DAL

 

I ordered the Tarka Dal

It was like lentil soup only hotter

I was a bit disappointed

As I was expecting curried otter

ROUGED CHEEKS

 

Rouged cheeks

And blood red lips

Varnished nails

And tattooed flesh

Dyed sculptured hair

And black shadowed brow

Who are you?

All pierced and painted

And what have you done

With my lovely daughter?

KEY PLAN

 

I am always losing my keys

So, I have devised a plan

My husband is horrified

As the car might be stolen

 

But to my way of thinking

It’s the perfect solution

After all what could be simpler

Than leaving them in the ignition

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 286

 

Nelly Bligh

Caught a fly

And tied it to some thread

With some delight

She tied it tight

But then the fly was dead