Sniff, Sniff

The following poem was written originally on tissue paper with a wire nail.

I was born about ten thousand years ago.

There isn’t a doggone thing that I don’t know.

I played “ring around the roses,”

With Peter, Paul, and Moses,

And I’ll choke the guy that says it isn’t so.

I once saw Satan as he looked the garden o’er.

I saw Adam and Eve kicked out of the garden door.

Through the bushes I was peeking

At the apple they were eating,

And I’ll swear I was the guy who ate the core.

Queen Elizabeth she fell in love with me.

We were married in Milwaukee secretly.

I tired of her and shook her

And went with General Hooker

To fight mosquitoes down in Tennessee.

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