Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Four lines of silliness

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

08 October 2011

Four lines of silliness

Lost

I used to have a toothbrush
‘Twas coloured bright lime green
I saw it last I brushed my teeth
But now it can't be seen.

(Just in case you thought I was going all posh and poetic on you.)

6 comments:

Justamum said...: That's funny!; 08 October, 2011 19:17
Andi said...: I read this post title as "four lines of stillness." Hence, I was quite confused by the poem...so I reread the title and realized silliness made much more sense!

Cute!; 08 October, 2011 21:19
Allegro ma non troppo said...: Sandpit?

Toybox?

Fridge?; 09 October, 2011 16:02
Givinya De Elba said...: New Toothbrush.; 09 October, 2011 20:18
Givinya De Elba said...: PS: orange.; 09 October, 2011 20:18
CynthiaK said...: Love your poetry.

Even the four-liners.

Orange, eh? Hmmm.; 13 October, 2011 16:01

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I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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08 October 2011

Four lines of silliness

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