Silly Season

Half a pound of tuppenny rice

Who ate all the treacle?

Mary's running down down the road

Doesn't have a vehicle.

Everything is upside down

Happens for no reason

No one quite knows what to do

Or whether it's the season.

Stupid is as stupid does

Going round in circles

Silly boy across the road

Watches out for turtles.

Is it right to venture out

In the wrong pyjamas?

Percy Shelley, so devout

Asks the Dalai Lama.

Saw a goose upon the stair

Whither shall I wander?

Who fell down and broke their crown?

So much there to ponder.

The King is in his counting house

Looking for a penny

Tries to make some sense of this

But there isn't any.