A Poem from my Youth

I recently remembered this poem from when I was a kid.  I seriously do not know where it came from or who wrote it.  I just remember loving how crazy insane it was.  I think it comforted me to know that I was not the only person in the world whose brain was messed up enough to think of something like this. Enjoy.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, skinny and stout,
I’ll tell you a tale I know nothing about;
The Admission is free, so pay at the door,
Now pull up a chair and sit on the floor.

One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight;
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.

A blind man came to watch fair play,
A mute man came to shout “Horray!”
A deaf policeman heard the noise and
Came and killed those two dead boys.

He lived on the corner in the middle of the block,
In a two-story house on a vacant lot;
A man with no legs came walking by,
and kicked the lawman in his thigh.

He crashed through a wall without making a sound,
into a dry creek and suddenly drowned;
The long black hearse came to cart him away,
But he ran for his life and is still gone today.

I watched from the corner of the big round table,
The only eyewitness to facts of my fable;
But if you doubt my lies are true,
Just ask the blind man, he saw it too.”

                                                                       ~ Unknown

  • http://joshuamhood.com Josh Hood

    Before I read it, I hated this post
    But the title was the part I loved the most
    And in the same way the poet would have said it
    This is a great poem. To bad I haven’t read it

  • aligrace

    i remember this poem!

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