ARE YOU WEARING BLACK NAIL VARNISH?

 

Are you wearing black nail varnish?

Well it’s just a bit of a macabre garnish

And its going to stand out is all I will say

When dressed in white on your wedding day

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 296

 

Rainbow to windward

Stay indoors allday

Rainbow to leeward

Let’s go out to play

SHE WAS SILVER HAIRED

 

She was silver haired

And her face was lined

But she was content

And felt blessed

To have lived long enough

To have grey hair,

And to have had

Such a happy life

That the laughter of her youth

Was etched into her face

WHAT’S THE POINT OF BEING AN ADULT

 

What’s the point of being

An adult if, when you wish

You can’t once in a while

Behave a little childish

WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL

 

When I was at school

Our English teacher, Mrs Rowan

Once asked of us as homework,

During the half term holiday

To memorize our favourite poem,

This was met by groans,

By the class, but not me

I chose A.E.Housman’s

“Ode to an athlete dying young”

And it has stayed with me ever since

IF PEOPLE MAKE DEMANDS OF YOU

 

If people, make demands of you

Disarm them skilfully

Give them more than they expect

And do it cheerfully

ASSOCIATIONS

 

If you spend your time associating

With well-mannered individuals

Your own manners will improve

And you will polish up like a jewel

If you spend your time associating

With the hard working and decent

You will take on board their ethic

And be a decent hard-working resident

If you spend your time associating

With vagabonds and lowly bums

Then a lonely wretch upon the streets

Is what you will surely become

If you spend your time associating

With the filthy rich and famous

You will be left to pick up the tab

And die in the gutter alone and penniless