Violets are blue
Some poems rhyme
But this one doesn’t!
As I was coming down the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away!
***
I never saw a purple cow.
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one!
***
Hairy Mary
Mary never cut her hair. So her hair grew
and grew, on her head, her arms, and her
legs. Some people called her Hairy Mary.
Mary did not like being called that, so she
did not like people who called her that
behind her back. Mary was so careful about
not being friends with people who called her
Hairy Mary that some called her Wary Hairy Mary.
Mary owned many cows that she milked to sell to people. There was lots of grass for her cows because Mary lived on the prairie next to the highway, but the pasture where her cows grazed was on the other side of a river. So Mary built a flat boat to carry her cows across the river called the Wary Hairy Mary Prairie Dairy Carry Ferry.
One day, Mary got the idea of using berries to flavor her milk. Soon her Wary Hairy Mary Berry Prairie Dairy Carry Ferry became famous. People always asked her to mix all kinds of different berries together with the milk. But Mary angrily said no, she only sold ordinary berry flavored milk.
Everybody liked her ordinary berry flavored milk, but people thought she was a little scary, and so some people called her Scary Wary Hairy Mary. This made Mary even madder, so sometimes Mary became very contrary and would not give them a ride on her ferry. So they started calling it the Very Contrary Scary Wary Hairy Mary Ordinary Berry Prairie Dairy Carry Ferry.
However, people soon discovered if you asked her very politely in a very gracious way to let you ride across the river, she would always let you ride. Pretty soon everybody learned the Very Contrary Scary Wary Hairy Mary Ordinary Berry Prairie Dairy Carry Ferry Query so they could ride across the river.
