13 Uses For A Question Mark
By JOHN ANSELL ?
Why do the trees have such nobbly knees –
Does it help them to bend when they walk?
What does a hen need a battery for?
And why don’t pigs like pork?
Is it true that a bat can play cricket?
How is it some Margarets are pegs?
Do train engines really have bogeys?
Do newsreaders really have legs?
If things that can sink can be sunk
Can the thinking of thinkers be thunk?
And if doggie is just a long version of dog,
Is a monkey an oversized monk?
Is a snapper the same as a breaker?
Is a sleeper the same as a kipper?
And why must it be that the fish in the sea
Have their water with salt but no pepper?
If the people from Turkey are Turks
And the people from Serbia, Serbs;
If the Swiss, Finns and Danes have one syllable names
Then why aren’t the Germans called Germs?
Our world is completely confusing,
Our language uniquely absurd;
It’s all such a riddle that soon every kid’ll
Prefer to be seen and not heard.
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