Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Poem: The Upset Mariner...

The Upset Mariner Who Took Post-Relationship Advice From Rogers and / or Hammerstein (whichever of them wrote the lyrics)

In the old South Pacific,
They said a shampoo would fix it,
But that’s just some rime in a song;
‘Cos even prolonged amnesia,
Sustained in Micronesia,
Couldn’t cleanse me of all you’ve done wrong.

You said ‘I love you’,
On a beach in Tuvalu,
And you said that you’d never leave me;
But you ruined the party,
When, in Kiribati,
You confessed to sleeping with a girl from Fiji.

When I told you it was over,
In Western Samoa,
You got on the first plane out of there;
And now I’ve tried every shampoo,
From Bali to Nauru,
But I can’t get you out of my hair

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