Bothering Without Etiquette
Give me back my luncheon-meat!
You ravisher, you fraud!
Or leave the country by next week
Along with cousin Maud.
And what about my pickle-jar
(The one I hid behind the stove)?
While swooning by the samovar
That Hengist coloured mauve.
These malcontented overtures
By Händel sternly played
Have made him search for other cures
Than those by Time forbade.
And when, at last, we lay to rest
The herring we have stewed
The Mottled Shrike of Budapest
Shall do a dance that's rude.
Contributors: | Apsley, Surlaw, Shipp. |
Poem finished: | 16th December 1999. |