72 Miles From The Sea

Tuesday, 4 July 2023

Are you wearing a sailor suit?

Are you trying to look cute?

Or are you trying to win a bet

Either way you just look wet

I’m something of a joker

People think I’m a funny man

I’ve a Palaeoanthropology joke

But to be fare it’s an Oldowan

I tuck my knees in

To my chest and lean forward.

That’s just how I roll

And gives his muscles a flex

As he keeps himself in shape

And concentrates on his pecks

The tale is about

Epic loves, to cut a long

Story short – the end

“I do apologize” Cromwell said

To King Charles the first, before

Having him beheaded on the block

“Don’t mention it” the King replied

“I regret I’m the cause of this chore”

Then both men bowed to the other

But it was after all, the Civil War

Henry the Eight desiccated his dead wife

Though she had always been a paragon,

Then she was finely chopped and put in a jar

And that’s the tale of Catherine of tarragon