Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Sleepless Secrets comic poem number 380 by Angela Lansbury

Last night i wen to bed

And tossed and turned my head

I couldnt get to sleep

Although I did the usual things



Which internet advice now brings

Like having sex and counting sheep. 

Creaking radiators, spiders on the walls

It's an omen, my computer calls


I thought it best to not waste time

On useles things, although they please

In stead I rose and washed soem clothes

And learned six words of Japanese


You'd think that some kind deity

Would give me a reward

Perhaps I'll get it later

If St Peter keeps a record


I suppose I''ll have to wait

Until I get to heaven

TodayI woke up late

Athough my sleeping hours hit seven


It really isn't good to wake 

At nine, ten or eleven

Now I'm feeling so tired

That I cannot cook an egg


Though I'm very pleased to say

I can still stand on one leg

Although I'm doing some things wrong

I'm getting others right


Although my morning after poem

Has intonation that's erratic

I've piled on lots of rhymes

Built like a wall of wonky bricks


Google sends readers at all hours

To shake their heads at me

There will always be a market

For a poem, if it's free


And if by midnight tonight 

I duly go to bed

I've near twenty-five good years

Until I reach a hundred!

-ends-

copyright Angela Lansbury Tuesday 13th 2024

i changed cannot boil an egg to cannot cook an egg because I had a picture of another type of egg. I lost the shock value of not even being abe to do the simplest kinds of egg. But I gained Cannot cook which is alliterative.


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