72 Miles From The Sea

Saturday, 8 July 2023

I know I’m getting old

In the most fundamental of ways

When children ask me

What it was like in the olden days

Are you wearing a snood?

Well I don’t like to be rude

But isn’t it a bit of a palaver

And it looks like a balaclava

I’m something of a joker

In fact I’m a crazy comic

I have an experimental joke

Sadly it’s a bit formulaic

God’s cruellest joke: when

Men figure how women work:

His manhood doesn’t

Rick Astley will let you borrow

Any movie from his Pixar collection,

But “He's never gonna give you Up”

As that’s the obvious exception

William Penn's Aunties, Bakers shop

Specialized in pastries from France

And were fussy about pricing their pies

They were the pie-rates of Penn's Aunts

The long-suffering husband said

“She uses the soft end of the broom

When she strikes me across the head”