Is the moon lazy when it lies on its back? <br /> Was it the zebra who designed the piano, <br /> White and black? <br />Is the elephant the wrong way round? <br />Small tail behind, large trunk in front, down to the ground <br /> <br />Why do monkeys hang by their tails? <br />Perhaps in the night at the moon they do gaze? <br />Does a tree cry whrnit falls to the ground? <br />How many pennies in an old pound? <br /> <br />Why do wolves howl at the moon? <br />Who in the rhyme ran away with the spoon? <br />Why does milk white into butter turn yellow? <br />When did Brendan write The Quare Fellow? <br /> <br />When Alexander discovered the phone <br />Whom did he call at home, all alone? <br />How many angels can sit on a pin? <br />Why was Oscar in jail locked in? <br /> <br />Why do pigs live in a sty? <br />Have you ever seen a pig in your eye? <br />When Wibur his plane he did fly, <br />Did he perhaps, touch the sky? <br /> <br />With the discovery of combustion internal, <br />Henry designed a machine, infernal. <br />A visit to the doctor with piles, so terrible, <br /> A cure, perhaps, sometimes, herbal?<br /><br />Joseph Enright<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-nonsence/
