A scholar who loved precise specificity
was asked about his exact ethnicity.
"That very much depends
how far back one extends:
I'm seven-eighths Brit, but all Kenyan - for simplicity."
There was a man who lived in the jungle -oh!
A fig took root in the roof of his bungalow.
'Twas a spotless hut,
'til the door grew shut,
and the place was overcome by a fungal growth.
There was a retiree named Graham
who dreamt he was unprepared for an exam.
"What a dream, you fool!
You're sixty years out of school,
and still have an impulse to cram!"
A hypnotic subject entered a trance,
then clucked like a chicken and danced.
"I didn't even ask
you perform these tasks,"
said the hypnotist, looking askance.
A drunken old idealist philosopher
got pulled over by a "pos'lif ossifer."
"Oh, can't you see,
my true self 's a tree,
and you can't justly jail a conifer!"