RED SKY IN THE MORNING

 

Red sky in the morning

As the day is dawning

Is a sailors warning they say

But really it’s just another day

EAST INDIAMAN ARNISTON

 

The Arniston was an East Indiaman

But had been requisitioned as a troopship

She was sailing from Ceylon to England

To repatriate soldiers wounded in the Kandyan Wars

When during a storm near Cape Agulhas, South Africa

She was wrecked at Waenhuiskrans on 30 May 1815

With only six surviving of the 378 aboard

SHE SAID SHE LIKED THE FOUR SEASONS

 

She said she liked the four seasons

When we first met

So for our first anniversary

I bought her a cruet set

FILTRATION IS ONE OF THE PROCESSES

 

Filtration is one of the processes

By which water can be made safe to drink

Flirtation is one of the processes

By which couples can see what they think

I WAS ONCE A MEDICAL STUDENT # 1

I was once a medical student

But they had to send me home

As I thought “Caesarean section”

Was a district in Rome

IT IS A PIVOTAL POINT IN HIS LIFE

It is a pivotal point in his life

When a boy reaches puberty

As he says goodbye to boyhood

And is on the way to his adultery

THE MOST COMMON FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL

 

The most common form of birth control

Is not, as is widely believed, contraception

Birth control is when a man says he wants sex

And the woman employs contradiction