Ol Shakey;Poetry

15th January 1999, 12:00am

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Ol Shakey;Poetry

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Ol Shakey does my ead in!

Why didn ee write tidy?

I mean, sall about bloody fairies.

They do belong on a Christmas tree.

Tha Puck...oo’s ee or is it she?

A misprint or wha?

An as fer Oberon, I reckon ee’s arfta Bottom!

Ernia? She’d give yew one.

Titania? Didn she ave a toy boy?

See, I never knew it wuz all about bonkin till ee tol us.

Mind, I’d rather-a English version

In them Brodies notes.

Ol Shakey musta bin on-a magies!

Love potion? More like Ecstasy.

“Kinky sex with an ass-head man

in a wood outside Athens.”

When I wrote tha in-a exam

I got absolutely nothin.

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