A good rough jerk, or a hand-over-hand.
They say Confucius made her come—
Homer and Dante—they each pulled some!
Bill Schopenhauer’s foot slipped, rank,
While Shakespeare, he fetched her a horrible yank.
The beast has hollered and frequently spit,
Often scratched, and sometimes bit,
And the men who were mauled, or laid out cold,
Were the very ones with the strangle hold.
Why he did it, I don’t know;