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  • Mirror, Mirror
    A young spring-tender girl
    combed her joyous hair
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Soldier Freddy
    Soldier Freddy
            was never ready,
    11 lines
  • omen of emptiness
    The clock has turned enough
    to reach a planet
    8 lines, 7 comments
  • Standing Room Only
    This population explosion
    Said Peter to St. Paul
    11 lines
  • Scorflufus
    There are many diseases,
    That strike people's kneeses,
    26 lines
  • I must go down to the sea again
    I must go down to the sea again,
        to the lonely sea and the sky;
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Orstralia
    Orstralia – Orstralia
    We think of you each day
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Oojah-ka-Piv
    The people who live
    On the Oojah-ka-Piv
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Values '67
    Pass by citizen
    don't look left or right
    18 lines, 3 comments
  • Maveric
    Maveric Prowles
    Had Rumbling Bowles
    30 lines, 2 comments
  • Why?
    American Detectives
    Never remove their hats
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Go North, South, East, and West, Young Man
    Drake is going west, lads
    So Tom is going East
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • Contagion
    Elephants are contagious!
    Be careful how you tread.
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • Indian Boyhood
    What happened to the boy I was?
    Why did he run away?
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Halved
    The essence of true beauty
    Lingers in all-encompassing rainbows
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Pussy-cat
    Pussy-cat
    What are vices?
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Letters
    I was thinking of letters,
    We all have a lot in our life
    11 lines, 3 comments
  • Teeth
    English Teeth, English Teeth!
    Shining in the sun
    12 lines
  • Two Children
    Two children (small), one Four, one Five,
    Once saw a bee go in a hive,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Look at all those monkeys!
    Look at all those monkeys
    Jumping in their cage.
    18 lines
  • My Sister Laura
    My sister Laura's bigger than me
    And lifts me up quite easily.
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Me
    Born screaming small into this world-
    Living I am.
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Bump
    Things that go 'bump' in the night
    Should not really give one a fright.
    5 lines, 5 comments
  • The Dog Lovers
    So they bought you
    And kept you in a
    17 lines, 7 comments
  • Porridge
    Why is there no monument
    To Porridge in our land?
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Down the Stream the Swans All Glide
    Down the stream the swans all glide;
    It's quite the cheapest way to ride.
    5 lines, 3 comments
  • The Soldiers at Lauro
    Young are our dead
    Like babies they lie
    20 lines
  • Jumbo Jet
    I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
    I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg you pardon?',
    14 lines, 5 comments
  • The Lion
    If you're attacked by a Lion
    Find fresh underpants to try on
    5 lines, 5 comments
  • I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
    I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
    Across the Irish Sea,
    37 lines, 1 comment
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