Thursday, December 17, 2009

What's "Grosser Than" Old Poetry?

Recent postings on SFK by well known (to some) authors, besides proving you can take the girls out of the country song but you can't take the country song out of the girls, have inspired my competiveness. This poem we Kennydale kids used to recite back in the early 50's possibly is a well-UNknown classic by now. We thought it was pretty funny then and its still not bad. As far as I know it never had a title. I'll call it "One Bright Morning..."

One bright morning in the middle of the night two dead boys got
up to fight.
Back-to-back, they faced each other;
Drew their swords and shot one another.
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
Pulled his gun
And stabbed the boys!

That's All, Folks. At least for now. I'll save the naughty 60 + year old Johnny F.....faster and Harry Bawls jokes for another time. Also the scatological "cherry pie" stuff. Mostly, these
have NOT aged well, especially given our sensitive, politically correct socio-political circumstances these days. There is, however, this one that has a great punchline....

2 comments:

Helen said...

Welcome back, C. Mike! We've missed you. And my comment is two-fold....1. ah, so that's where she gets it...and....2. love a post where someone can use "scatagalogical" seriously.

FrenchyMcFrenchcake said...

what is mildly frightening is... i remember this poem from some part of my childhood... weird!