HNY?
(For All Who Fall beneath the Pall)
Hey diddle
diddle
Nero will fiddle
whilst the rest
of us lie
aswoon
life for a few
is a merry old
sport
and they are
all so
over the moon
*
Old King Cole
is a droll
old troll
he has fired
his
fiddlers three
his pipe
he
gets from Salvador
his bowl
from
over the sea
*
For that’s the
way
we do things here
in the land of
the bare
and the free
*
Humpty Dumpty
planned a great
wall
to keep riffraff
at bay
when the
beggarly rose
in dire dismay
Humpty
fled
clean away
*
Birds of
a feather
now plot
together
along with
cohort
swine
masters could lose
their
fiddling sticks
and dames
run
out of wine
*
Alack Jack isn’t
nimble
no more
they shipped
his work off
to a foreign shore
like Oliver
now
he begs for more
*
Mother Hubbard
is short one
cupboard
they took
away her
dole
the country
is bare
but everywhere
and they have
repossessed
our soul
[© R.Kanth 2022]
Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (Novel) , A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse)
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