There was a famed therapist from Vienna
who knew the source of all angst and each dilemma.
"Sexy thoughts of your mom
made you fear the A-bomb!"
"Uh, it started last week when I fell from an antenna."
A window washer from Chicago
would work in the snow and that fog - Oh!
But he was chagrined
when there were crosswinds,
"A guy could splat like a soft avocado!"
There was a great guitarist from Nashville
who couldn't remember to pay his tax bill.
They seized his Les Paul
and even his stress ball.
He became that stressed-out uke player of Asheville.
When Lord Byron lived at Cambridge University,
he greatly increased campus diversity.
He lived with a bear.
They were quite the pair.
For the poet, the dog ban was a perversity.
There was a lantern maker from Hoi An
known for being a brilliant craftsman.
So increased his fame,
'til his shop burst in flames,
and they called for a paper lantern ban.
The philosopher named Diogenes
was like a dog... known to have fleas.
-failed to find an honest man.
-didn't let "Greatness" block his tan.
But he lived simply, and as he pleased.
There was a burglar from Valladolid
who could burgle with great grace and speed.
he broke into the sacristy
with much alacrity,
but was dog-chased out of the church and treed.
A tourist who traveled to Goa
contracted some mean protozoa.
Claimed she got it in a cave,
but "more likely at a rave,"
said those who recall that girl from Goa.
There was an old woman from Germany
who went to the bank to get her money.
"It may seem quite strange,
but I'll take it in change.
I buy vending machine sausage when there's urgency."
An exhibitionist girl from Frankfurt
loved dearly to beguile and to flirt.
When she raised her hem,
her teacher said, "Ahem!
that's now more of a belt than a skirt."