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From: paulh@azure.UUCP (Paul Hubbard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Nonsense Poems
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 12:04:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 14 12:04:42 1983
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Here are a couple of the "nonsense" poems that I learned as a child.
They are not necessarily complete and probably composites of more than
one poem which have become jumbled together over time. The first one
has probably been heard by most of you, but I will repeat it for those
few barbarians who have had a deprived childhood:

		Yesterday, upon the stair
                I saw a man who wasn't there.
                He wasn't there again today.
                Gee, I wish he'd go away.

[I liked it as a kid, but it sure sounds inane now.] Here is the other:

 		One fine day in the dead of night,
                Two dead boys got up to fight.
                Back to back, they faced each other,
                Drew their swords and shot each other.
                A deaf policeman heard the noise
                And came to the aid of the two dead boys.

                It was a summer's day in winter,
                and the snow was raining fast,
                as a barefoot boy with shoes on
                stood sitting in the grass.

Don't you feel enriched?
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