Grinning like a nutcracker, hell's bells
jangling on his cap, he knows
just how to deal with them
- takes more than a bungling cop
to keep him down!
Slapstick's the way to do it;
leaving mayhem and murder, infanticide,
stolen sausages and the crocodile, all
behind him, with the hangman's noose
still dangling up ahead, he goes
to and fro in the earth,
and up and down in it.
Pleased as Punch.
Whence comest thou?
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3 comments:
Lovely invocation of the knarled and painted puppet loved by children the world over, once upon a time. Not sure where to see him now?
"That's the way to do it!"
your "Pleased as Punch" is a brilliant line. Tri-Tra-Trullala, Kasperle ist wieder da!
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