The Missing Daughter
THE MISSING DAUGHTER
He worked near the Thames
Engineering computer systhames
And other electronic ithames.
This young man came from Gloucester :
Went out driving with his daughter, but loucester.
Seems his car wouldn’t start in Worcester
Cos his flat battery needed a borcester .
Policeman said, earlier that year in Szczecin*
She’d been seen with cowboy in a ten-gallon szczecson,
Wearing a hand-stitczed czechered shirt in czurcz,
And disrespectfully munching Czech czocholates.
Was this the same guy she was with
When she was visiting in Cadiz?
Months later they met up with a Sioux in Saulte St Marie**
And they visited the the zioux there,
Where a young man tried to waulte the girl,
But she fled to Arizona, to Tucson.
There, the police failed to catch her : they arrived tuc soon
Then she escaped to Arkansas
Strangest case of missing daughter I ever sas.
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NOTES
* Ex-German city of Stettin, now in Poland and called Szczecin
** The entire Canadian population knows that this town
is pronounced “Soo-saint-maree”.
The entire US population has never heard of the place.
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2011
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