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Table Dancing

I know a young lady named Spink

Who is extremely fond of a drink.

Her and Miss Mabel

Dance on the table

When we gentlemen buy them a drink …

 

Indifference

I have been kissed

By passing lips.

They soon move on,

And are gone.

 

I have met ships

At midnight

Who sail at dawn.

 

 

How forlorn

Is the cold light

Of morn

After a sultry night

Of pleasure

In indifferent weather.

Worms

When I am gone

My poetry may live on.

And when I go

Others will know

Whether it is so.

While in the cold ground

There is nothing profound

For worms have no time

For fleeting rhyme.

But love to dine …

When I Met the Infamous Professor Moriarty

When I met the infamous Professor Moriarty

Who said, “come along to my party!”

The great Homes was there

With a big dancing bear.

And Watson danced nude at that party!

Sometimes, in Dreams

Sometimes, in dreams, it seems

To me

That what I feel and see

Is reality.

But, when I awake

I realise my mistake,

And partake in what we designate as reality.

Yet I may dream

And the solid things I feel and see

May merely seem to be

As Poe saw long ago

Ennui

Me alone at home

Listening to the autumn rain.

You, on the train

Coming to relieve me of ennui.

We will play

On this rainy day.

But I can not pretend

That ennui will not descend again.

For I often find

That the rain

Hides behind a smile

You Won’t Get to Heaven

When a moral old lady named Nevin

Said, “Kevin, you won’t get to heaven!”

A gorgeous young sinner called Bell

Said, “Its more fun in hell.

And Kevin, I’ll take you to heaven …!”

A Fine Chest

When a young lady wearing a vest

Said, “do you like my chest?”

I said, “its so good to touch.

Do tell me, are you Dutch?”

And I stroked that fine wooden chest!

 

Unresolved

As I sat reading poetry

A figure passed me.

I wonder, in future years

Will another, without fear

See pass by

A moving phantom, as did I?

Or did I see

Some future me

As I sat alone at home

Pondering on poetry?