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Allan Ahlberg

Scissors

by Allan Ahlberg

Scissors

Nobody leave the room.
Everyone listen to me.
We had ten pairs of scissors
At half-past two,
And now there's only three.

Seven pairs of scissors
Disappeared from...

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Spike Milligan

The Land of the Bumbly Boo

by Spike Milligan

In the Land of the Bumbly Boo
The people are red, white and blue
They never blow noses
Or ever wear clothses
What a sensible thing to do!

In the Land of the Bumbly Boo
You can buy...

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Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra

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Comic Verse

I'm troubled, as you can tell by my introduction, about comic verse. Comic verse gets bad press because rigid notions of comedy foreground throwaway poems. Surely the best comedy is when the poem surprises us into laughter rather than setting up t... >

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