Mad Aunt Bernards Tortoise Poetry

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Mad Aunt Bernards Tortoise Poetry

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Lord Elpus - The Guardian

Saturday, April 4

Uncle Stinky's Ear Trumpet - on being offered a cup of tea


WHAT? WHAT?
I can't hear you, speak UP!!!
A Bee?
Would I like? What?
A Wee? No, I've had one.
A Bee? Why would I need a Bee? For heavens' sake, I swear these people are funny in the head.
A Knee?
Knee. Knee?
No, I can't hear you.
The end of my trumpet is blocked with wax.
But I could do with a cup of tea, though. You haven't offered one for a while.
Scratched with a crow claw by: by the sundial hour of

5 comments:

  1. Jan5 April 2009 at 13:46

    Oh, I've just found you Aunt Bernard and I'm never going to let you go!!!!

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  2. Kush5 April 2009 at 18:35

    Ditto Jan.
    This was very good. Enjoyed :)

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  3. Heather5 April 2009 at 19:52

    This is so funny but also very near the truth. My Mum wears a hearing aid in each ear, and even so our conversations sound very like your poem at times!

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  4. Totalfeckineejit5 April 2009 at 23:10

    I like this it reminds me of my favourite joke as a child about the man with the banana in his ear.Could do with a bit more tortoise though.pity it wasn't a tortoise day.

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  5. Genie7 April 2009 at 13:46

    Thanks for visiting,
    i used to have a tortoise who loved to help me with my art work, i could do with her now.

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