Poems

[FirstAmongstDaves]

From the Pirate High Command raid on Dalpok in 2008:

The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.

I sat there with Long Fin Killie.
We sat there, we two.
And I said, "How I wish
We had something to do!"

Too wet to go out
And too cold to raid York.
So we sat in the house.
We did nothing at all.

So all we could do was to
Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
And we did not like it.
Not one little bit.

>BUMP!<
And then
something went BUMP!
How that bump made us jump!

We looked!
Then we saw him step in the pub!
We looked!
And we saw him!
FirstAmongstDaves with a club!
And he said to us,
"Why do you sit there like that?"
"I know it is wet
And the sun is not sunny.
But we can have
Lots of cheap kills that are funny!"

"I know some good games we could play,"
Said FirstAmongstDaves.
"I know some new tricks.
Involving bodies and graves
A lot of good tricks.
I will show them to you.
Opium Joe
Will not mind at all if I do."

Then Killie and I
Did not know what to say.
And petey was out of the hold
For the day.

"Lets go to Dalpok
And kill the good folk
Lets bash down their huts
And mash their brains into yolk!
Lets steal all their women
And bonk all their gold
Perhaps that is muddled
(I am getting old)."

And so the good pirates
With cutlass and flintlock
Gave a grand old huzzah!
And made haste for Dalpok.


With apologies to Dr Seuss.