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aerial assault

If pigs could fly it wouldn’t be good

You’d have to go out with a brolly

Wear Wellington boots and waterproof suits

Life wouldn’t be happy or jolly
 

There’d be danger around every corner

You would think in your car you’d be safe

But unless you’re under some cover

Either you or your car they will strafe
 

The Towns would be dirty and smelly

And slippery in the extreme

We’d have to employ a small army

In an effort to keep the streets clean
 

Now don’t you get all of a fluster

For the scientists haven’t yet found

The means of piggy propulsion

Or getting the beasts off the ground
 

If one day this nightmare should happen

It won’t come as any surprise

If they manage to get piggies airborne

Then the price of bacon will rise

— shazbat, Jan 17, 2009

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Region, Country: Norfolk, UK, GBR

Favorite Poets: Kipling, T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and many more.

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yenti

17 years 4 months ago

Inflation

as the price of bacon is so high and inflation is roaring maybe those pigs are being inflated to, but I hope with one of our heavier gases. Amusing write made me smile as I remember a trip to France when we were bombarded by Seagulls at 5.30 am and they dropped us some debris that was rather smelly. Have you tried to find some place in France at that time in the morning where you want to wash your hair. LOL You take care, Yours Ian.T