Curmudgeon Soup Slurper

Meet the mad, manic, Mister Murgatroyd
An undynamic blistered humanoid
A curred curmudgeon you don't want to meet
In a bar, back alley, or dead end street

He's a filthy, flagrant, flatulent fart
Sewer rat mind and tarantula heart
Cleaves cuddly kittens, feeds them to guppies
Pet pranks the pet shop, punting the puppies 

He's our white whale and our snake in the grass 
A demon from hell, one pain in the ass
His black, rotten heart's beyond all belief
We need good karma to offer relief 

Slurp burping some soup, soup wouldn't swallow 
Burp slurping for breath, death would soon follow 
A lone chicken bone was lodged in his throat
His face had changed tone and started to bloat

No one there for the Heimlich maneuver 
Cuz no one cared from here to Vancouver 
No smelling salts would be administered 
No certificate of death was registered 

They scrambled his brains to stop his last twitch 
Then scraped his remains, dropped him in a ditch
A soulless soul and one sorry old sot
Heavens to Murgatroyd?... Heaven thinks not!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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