Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A poem which attempts to dissuade you from bringing your Koala to Liffey Sound*


Advice for Spiderman who, in the above shot, is contemplating where he should and shouldn't bring his Koala Bear.

A poem which attempts to dissuade you from bringing your Koala to Liffey Sound*

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Don't bring your koala to Liffey Sound

There's little eucalyptus enough to be found

without him eating through it, he'd be browned

off with the community station

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He'd be so unfit, your dodgy marsupial

he'd want to go pirate, just like a troupial**

Oh twould be very painful, even worse than rupial***

Listen there's no invitation

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For teddy bears disguised with pouches

They're far better off hanging out on couches

He'd nibble the microphone, cause so much ouches

Don't let him enact desperation

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Koala BEARS are far too clingy

for broadcasting, wouldn't be very singy

Tell him go way on a boat, a ship or a dingy

but no Liffey Sound for your Koala today

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*Liffey Sound is a local radio station in Lucan for anyone who hasn't heard of it - hot debate on the classification of koala bears can be found here. http://sundayscrapbook.blogspot.com - in Triona Walsh's show

**Troupial is a bird that specialises in pirating nests - ie pushing out other birds

*** Rupial is a skin disease occuring specially in tertiary syphilis


16 comments:

Words A Day said...

tertiary syphilis, rupial, troupial...WOW! here's to more poems with footnotes!

Peter Goulding said...

I remember the day pandemonium gripped us,
A hungry koala excitely nipped us,
Thought that our hair was brown eucalyptus,
Tonsorial devastation!

Words A Day said...

ps left a comment on your plea for no more awards...it was an irish "no" right!?

Domestic Oub said...

Quite brilliant.

Titus said...

No, no quite. Just brilliant.

And I learned stuff. I learned stuff!!

Niamh B said...

Thanks Words, my aim is to inform and entertain! - and tks for the award
:-)
Tonsorial Peter!!! Genius.
Tks Oub - I hope you see the error of your ways re the insistence that a koala can't be a bear..
Titus - apologies for the learning, will try to be more careful in future!

Domestic Oub said...

oh, I meant the 'quite' in the American way - ie 'very'... not like, 'quite' in the stiff upper lip Enlgish way :o)

Or something.

Niamh B said...

I totally knew that Oub, for some reason I have an american accent today

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Totalfeckineejit said...

Where's anonymous?

Totalfeckineejit said...

More brilliance! (That's a positive comment, not a request/crticism)

Niamh B said...

Thanks TFE!

Anonymous said...

I'm always here lurking around in the background

Kat Mortensen said...

At first I was thinking, "Is Liffey Sound" an Irish music shop? And then I remembered...
"troupial" and "rupial" had me gasping!
Great one!

Kat

(Are you not putting these on the separate blog anymore? I commented at the platypus one just now.)

Niamh B said...

Thanks Kat,

Yes, just putting em up in bulk - ie every so often...

Niamh B said...

Thanks Kat,

Yes, just putting em up in bulk - ie every so often...