Snip Snip

Forty years a surgeon
the finest in the land
Now he gets a shoddy watch
of inexpensive brand

Forty years he’d tolerated
laughter and derision
Just because he chose to
specialise in circumcision

But he just grinned and suffered
all the nasty jibes and quips
Because they didn’t know that
he had saved up all the tips

His wife however made a gift
for she knew how to stitch 
She’d made a leather wallet
out of all those willy bits

A wallet, is that all, he said
derision on his face
Just give it a rub she said
et voilà, a suitcase

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Gershon Wolf

Date: 12/9/2021 5:24:00 PM

And here's the rub...

Terry Flood
Date: 12/9/2021 5:35:00 PM

Ahh, Gershon… it’s comments like that, that make me grow as a man… now… if only you were a pretty young blonde! ;-) Terry

David Kavanagh

Date: 12/4/2021 1:45:00 PM

You certainly know how to put them together Terry, saving up all the tips is always a great idea, and a great line for your poem, I think Rico is referring to the nazis stitching together the tattooed skin they cut off concentration camp victims to make lampshades, your poem has a much less sinister meaning, had a great laugh reading it, cheers David

Terry Flood
Date: 12/4/2021 2:35:00 PM

Thanks, David. You know, somewhere in my dusty old archives, those hideous Nazi lampshades do ring a bell. Shame my lighthearted poem invoked such a ‘memory’. Terry

Rico Leffanta

Date: 12/4/2021 11:40:00 AM

Reminds me of Hitler's lamps, but enjoyed! Aloha!

Terry Flood
Date: 12/4/2021 2:45:00 PM

Yikes! David has just cleared my confusion. All I can say in my defence is that my surgeons had received signed consent forms. ‘Funny’, if that's the word, how an innocent jokey ditty can draw such unlikely associations. At least I now know that neither of us is nuts. Terry

Terry Flood
Date: 12/4/2021 11:54:00 AM

I love your replies, Rico. I just don’t always understand them… and this has me flumoxed. Thanks though. Terry