Mrs McGinty’s shed,
who put it up?
“No, not I!”
Mrs McGinty’s shed,
who built it there?
“I don’t know – why?”
Mrs McGinty’s shed,
it just fell down!
“Nothing to do with me –
I was out of town.”
I found a man upon the cliffs,
the dying words,
I heard him utter,
were. ‘Why didn’t they sell Peanut Butter?’
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Tagged #AgathaChristie, #poetry. #poem, #spoof, #WhyDidntTheyAskEvans
You left the dead body on the landing;
do you have no understanding
of how these criminal cases go?
The detective examined the body,
the coroner told him the cause:
‘A sharp bite to the back of the neck,
whilst held between two paws.’
And in your defence…?
A magpie sat at the top of a tree,
two others flew down and then there were three;
two flew off at the sound of a gun
three minus two, that makes one.
A magpie sat at the top of the tree,
he flew off,
and then there were none.
The Body in the Library
(Yet another poem that tries to fit the title of an Agatha Christie novel in to it)
The Bodleian Library,
in Oxford,
has quite a few books
in crannies
and nooks;
when
I
went there
I was
the
Odd body in the library.
… always a train;
in every episode of Poirot;
well, in most of them,
I should say.
Time and time again
we see Hercule
upon a train,
waving goodbye to,
or greeting one
in a Herculean way.
‘There’s always a train
Mm-hmm, there’s always a train
Always, always (always a train)‘*
Always,
always,
always a train.
*from Always The Sun by The Stranglers
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Tagged #AgathaChristie, #poetry. #poem, #Poirot, #Stranglers, song, Train
Agatha Christiemas?
What shall we find with the new Poirot?
Shall it be ABC 5*
Parts 1,2 and 3?
Or will it be a Hickory Dickory Shock
to the system?
Shall I have to get the 3:10 from Paddington to Bear it?
Who knows whether John Suchet
can be bettered
or equaled…
it is, perhaps,
just a previous reincarnation
sequelled?
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