You look familiar. said the mirror.

You look familiar. said the mirror.
i said, why thank you!
the mirror replied:
because its the polite thing to do.
*
How many fingers I am holding up?
You’re a bloody spoon you don’t have any fingers.
How did you know?
I’m in the fork draw.
0…
*
How many Nazis does it take to change a light bulb?
NINE!
*
Questions from my Son:
Q:Where did Ducks learn to swim?
A: In the water…

Q:How many people live in the world?
A:Me, your Mother, your brother and your Father…
Q: What about everyone else?
A: I’ll need my glasses…

Q:Why are adults so serious Father?
A:It is precisely that kind of attitude I wish to neuter out of your corpulent body and mind.

Q: Can I mind be corpulent?
A: Can a spade sing?

Q: Dogs, who needs them?
A: The Chinese will eat them.
Q: No but who actually wants to own one.
A: True enough…we’ll take five.

A: Do you love mummy…?
Q: Certainly…just don’t let on…

A: How many times does a person laugh in their lifetime?
Q: At my last count once authetically. several thousand halfheartedly. and once for your mother-in-law and father-in-law. and a seering nasty laugh for that bastard who got your mother pregnant.

A: Dad, can I always count on your?
Q: Well what sort of figures are we talking here son…I’m going out soon.

A: The Third World War is nearing I overheard today.
Q: O, and next it will be the icecaps, and the weather…tell me something I don’t already know…
A: I’ve just wet my pants.

A: Politics is a dangerous business.
Q: That’s why I went into horticulture and let your mother take up the arms of my shirt. Violence will solve nothing: unless it invovles money. remember that. I’m not wise for no reason.


With your brains Fred I could be a genius!

Q. Is this good?
A. Yup.

Absolutely, this is an insightful and structurally sound poem. The question and answer strophes are an excellent way of achieving the polyphony that most of your poems seek, but in a manner that enables an instant familiarity for the reader.

What was the sly NO after the line for? Hmmm…

I thought some of the humour a bit hackneyed but I thought I would post it anyway. cheers for reading.

Are you bullshit again siatd!

Glad you found this insightful and structurally sound.
The simple mechanism of Q/A is quite effective I guess.
But the qaulity of the humour might be lacking…

Thanks again for your concise comment.

Haha! The first lines in my currents sigs are catchphrases and comments from Noel Edmonds in Deal or No Deal (see my current avatar too). The “no” is supposed to be his reaction on seeing one of the big-money boxes get opened.

'Twas a fun read,
But someone,
The cock hypnosis has got to go!