So many thousand 'love' poems
It's getting to be a bore
So here's what I call a 'fat' poem
To help even up the score.
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I was sleeping as peaceful as you please,
Passed out like I had some kind of disease
When some guy hollered out, 'Grab your socks! '
He must have had a head full of rocks,
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There was a man from Pierre
Who was very short on hair.
He said it was because his head
Rubbed the top of the bed
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Busted flat in Baton Rouge, just before the rains,
Why would a person live here if they had an ounce of brains?
It's so hot and muggy in the good ole summertimes
And the natives all appear to have come from different climes.
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There was this man from Calcutta
Who couldn't eat any butta
-Then like a dunce
-He tried it once
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As I was going to Canterbury Fair
I met a maiden with tangled hair.
—I said, 'Your looks are a pity.
—It makes you look gritty.
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My printer was on the blink
'Cause sooner than you think,
I'd again run out of ink.
The thing was really out of whack,
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A cowpoke came walking into town.
Upon his face was a great big frown.
—His horse bucked him off into a sticker
—Then ran off without even a nicker.
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There was a man from South Bending
With a fertile mind always rending
—A thousand inventions and stuff
—So much more than enough
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There was a young Miss from Toronto
Who said that she didn't want to
—But later she did
—For a couple of quid
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