Nonsense

16/05/2009 by admin.

The only verse (excluding some posh poetry learnt in English and French at school and engraved on my personality) that seems to stick in my mind nowadays is either nonsense verse or indecent rhymes. Thus going through my mind and not including the ultra-indecent (mostly rugby songs though I never played the game):

“ I saw a lamb upon a tree/ I stared at it, it stared at me/I stood quite still/ So did the lamb/And neither of us cared a damn” or words to that effect.

“Hush, hush/nobody cares/Christopher Robin/has/fallen/down/stairs”

Or, politely indecent

“A certain young man called Rex/Had a diminutive organ of sex/When charged with exposure/he said with composure/De minimis non curat lex”

Or the incomparable E.J.Thribb

“Somerset/that/is a strange/Name and /yet,W. Yorkshire/Maugham would/hardly sound right”

Oh there are thousnds of ‘em but I promise not to list any more unless you reply with your favourites.

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