Nonsense Poem

Nonsense Poem

“Order! Order! this Kangaroo Court is in session.
You had a whale of time. And you gave the impression
You were drunk as a skunk and causing depression.”

“I didn’t do it. Your Honour. You’re badgering me again.”
“I had it from the horse’s mouth – the witness was in pain.
As the black sheep of the family, in custody you’ll remain.”

“I’m just being used as a guinea pig. A travesty of Law.”
“Don’t cry wolf to me, I’ve heard it all before.”
“I’m just blind as a bat. Don’t sentence me I implore.”

“I smell a rat. It was you, a fine you will have to pay.”
“I’m as poor as a church mouse. I’ll have my say,
You’re still hounding me night and day.”

“I don’t care if it’s takes donkey’s years, you must pay the court.
You’re as sly as a fox, I don’t doubt, “ the Judge was heard to snort.
The defendant slumped and played possum, hoping the Judge to thwart.

Such monkey business made the Judge even madder.
“I’ve never heard such cock and bull and what is even sadder,
not content with copycat crime, you’ve become an awful bragger.”

“OK. You’ve weaselled it out of me. I ‘m just an ordinary man.
I’ll take the tiger by the tail and pay just what I can.”
He pretended to be ill and sick and so he hatched a plan.


“Get busy as a beaver and regular payments make to the fine
You’re a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I still could give you time.”
“But I’m as sick as a parrot and I don’t have a dime.”

“You’re flogging a dead horse, please Judge give me leave.
You’ve hit the bull’s eye – I’ll never again steal or receive.”
Another red herring or should the Judge just believe?


“Don’t get my goat again. Next time you’ll get time!”
And like a bat out of Hell he escaped from the rhyme.





Linda Prince