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Tick tick tick

Tick, tick, tick tick flea

Said the sheep as she did her ablution

These pesky things get everywhere

Is there really no final solution

With just one haircut in the spring

Followed close, by our annual wash

We’re girls you know, it’s not the thing

How on earth can we ever be posh

If only we were human, we

Could bathe when we wanted, what bliss

We’d bath spring, summer and autumn

But in winter we’d give it a miss

© John W Fenn 18-09-2009

— shazbat, Sep 19, 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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shazbat

shazbat

16 years 8 months ago

Hi Fleur, glad you liked it,

Hi Fleur, glad you liked it, I actually wrote a whole flock of sheep poems on the same day, this is one of the few survivors, the rest were either rude, sexist, definately not pc or total dross, thank you for reading. John