Miscellany

The Lemon About The Poem”

An Interpretation by Ben Macy

With an introduction by Isaac Einstein

Lyrics by Edwin Hubble Arranged by d'Fault

They have lemons and poems

And poems about lemons

But their xylems and phloems

(Just like Samuel Clemens')

Are lame and I'll show'em

With the lemon about the poem!

They told him he could not

Be more than lemonade

So instead he thought

I'll be self made

So he looked into the heavens

For things with 2257's

When “I'll be about be about a poem” he said,

Next to the old willow

The look upon their peels was dread

They made him alphabetize until O

“To be about a poem is an impossible thing,

And it would be easier to make a seagull sing.”

The rhyming was scorbutic

The melody was curvy

He encountered once a blue tick

Got lemon-lime disease and scurvy

And as it took away his passion

It gave his old pulp quite a mashin'