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Doodah

Hello, I need a doodah, an idgy widgy thing

They come in orange, red or black

Tied up in yellow string

I don’t know if you sell them

I only hope you do

The other shops don’t have them

They haven’t got a clue

One place, they had some whatsits

But they’re not quite the same

I’m terribly forgetful

I just can’t recall their name

If you have something similar

Then that might do instead

The colour does not matter

As long as it’s not red

Ok, it’s not a problem

If you haven’t got them in

But do you sell those thingys

They’re sort of long and thin.

© John W Fenn 10-07-2009

— shazbat, Jul 13, 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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Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 11 months ago

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A delightful and fanciful piece! I greatly enjoyed the reading of this poem. It kind of reminded me of an old Chuck Berry song titled: "My Ding-a-ling" Always, Cat
shazbat

shazbat

16 years 10 months ago

Thanks Cat, someone said to

Thanks Cat, someone said to me the other day that this reminded them of Shel Silverstein, not wishing to appear ignorant I thanked them and left it at that. Later that day I checked him out online only to realise that I had indeed read most of his stuff to my kids when they were young, perhaps I should cite him as one of my influences, he is also the guy who wrote "A boy named Sue" a big hit for Johny Cash. Thanks again for reading. Regards John
Fleur MacDonald

Fleur MacDonald

16 years 10 months ago

This is most excellent,

finaly a poem about thingymajigs, I can't believe I haven't written one! thank you Lord Shazbat! You are most wonderful :-)fleur
shazbat

shazbat

16 years 10 months ago

Thank you Fleur, I wrote

Thank you Fleur, I wrote this after standing behind a woman in a plumbers merchants, she was trying to explain what she wanted but nobody knew what she meant by doodah, thingummy, ooja or whatsit so she went away empty handed. Was it Gracie Fields who sung a song called thigamebob circa WW2 ? glad you enjoyed it. John