Hilarious nonsense poems:
One bright morning in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back-to-back they faced one another, Drew their swords and shot each other. One was blind and the other couldn't see, So they chose a dummy for a referee. A blind man went to see fair play, A dumb man went to shout "hooray!" A deaf policeman heard the noise, And came and killed those two dead boys. A paralyzed donkey walking by, Kicked the copper in the eye, Sent him through a nine inch wall, Into a dry ditch and drowned them all. (If you don't believe this lie is true, Ask the blind man -- he saw it too!)
Anglo-saxon riddle:
A moth ate some words -- it seemed to me strangely weird -- when I heard this wonder: that it had devoured -- the song of a man. A thief in the thickness of night -- gloriously mouthed the source of knowledge -- but the thief was not the least bit wiser -- for the words in his mouth.
A poem by Christopher Isherwood from his Poems Past and Present:
The common cormorant or shag Lays eggs inside a paper bag The reason you will see no doubt It is to keep the lightning out But what these unobservant birds Have never noticed is that herds Of wandering bears may come with buns And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
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