Balsamic Bus
From Russell Square to Holborn
In a tubular device
Then Edinburgh to Oban
In carriage drawn by mice
And thence to Anatolia
In something rather lowlier
In a trice
From cucumber to gherkin
By some metamorphic route
From petrol can to firkin
Hopping on a single boot
And thence to find a carrot
In some sequestered garret
Must be moot
From Jupiter to Venus
At one-third the speed of light
No one could have seen us
Unless blessed with second sight
Or periscopic ankles
(How the notion fairly rankles)
Or a kite?
From aardvaark through to zygote
In a bookworm's greedy dream
The pages fed to my goat
Are no longer what they seem
And though the picture's missing
The frame has gone astray
Like the rhyme
| Contributors: | Roland, P, TG, (trad). |
| Poem finished: | 5th November 2001. |