Weird Noise - Was It A Ghost? Comical poem 639 by Angela Lansbury

 

Toaster. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Who should we all blame

When we smell burned toast?

A human being

Not a made up ghost

And when something 

Falls off a wall

It's just gravity, 

Not ghosts at all

And when you hear

Some creaking, late

You know you forgot

To shut the gate

And that strange noise

A kitchen cough

That is your fridge

Turning on and off

And clonking noises

Don't do a runner

You boiler needs

To see a plumber

And when I hear

A tap, tap, tap

I know I have

A dripping tap

And a funny noise

From the radiator

I must get around

To fixing, bleed, it later

Strange buzzing

Up in that lampshade

I sprayed the wasp

It hasn't stayed

You feel a chill - like a ghost?

You must be having a laugh

It just open doors and windows

Which are making a draft

My house is always

Alive with sound

But a sensible scientist

Is checking around.

'I've fixed all the problems

So you shouldn't complain

Then what's wrong now?

'It's eerily quiet again.'

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