Stuart Armor Poems

I have a good deal of interest
in the good ship Mary Celeste.
How this vessel ended up crewless
is a topic on which we're clueless.,
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August 30,1916 The British magazine Punch includes this item: 'An officer serving in the Balkans writes to say that he has just come across a Hungarian - English phrase - book which starts with the useful phrase, 'My postilion has been struck by lightning.' There have been thousands of subsequent mentions of this phrase in different phrasebooks in many languages. No one has yet to produce such a phrasebook, but many have apparently seen them.


My postilion has been struck by lightning,
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Mr. Carter found a stiff,
identified it by it's glyph,
seems he was called Tutankhamen,
that's a name that's not too common,
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I am afraid I must present
news of his final decent.
We must bring ourselves in attune
with the loss of this guy known for a balloon.
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Dec 8, 1953-Release of the novelty tune 'I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas', written by John Rox, performed by 10 year old Gayla Peevey. A local promoter picked up on the popularity of the song and launched a campaign to present her with an actual hippopotamus on Christmas.The campaign succeeded, and she was presented with a hippo, which she donated to the city zoo. The hippopotamus lived for nearly 50 years.

If, for the last several Christmases,
you've asked for one or more Hippopotamuses,
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I think I will muse
on what happens after too many brews.
If you happen to be near
an enormous quantity of beer
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I am frankly all agog,
there was a riot about eggnog?
I imagine these particular cadets
were bound to have a few regrets.
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Despite the fights between the Left and the Right,
I think our future's still quite bright.
No matter what the legal problem, there's a solution,
and we can find it in the Constitution.
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Would you care for a roast, sirloin, or chop
from something that can fly, wriggle, or hop?
Can I interest you at all
in an entree that used to crawl?
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If you would have asked for the answer
which one was the better dancer,
the elder sister or younger brother,
it was the first born, not the other.
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