SANCOR Newsletter Issue #169: March 2002

 

"TOUCH OF MADNESS"

The Oyster

 

There once was an oyster whose story I tell

Who found that some sand was inside of his shell

Just a small grain but it gave him great pain

For oysters have feelings though they seem so plain

 

Now did he berate the working of fate

Which led him to such a deplorable state?

Did he curse out the government

Call for an election

And cry that the sea should have given

protection?

 

No! he said as he lay on the shelf

Since I cannot remove it I’ll try to improve it

The years rolled along in their timeous way

And he came to his end on a lunch time tray

The small grain of sand that had bothered him so was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow

This tale has a moral for isn’t it grand

What an oyster can do with a small grain of sand

What couldn’t I do if I’d only begin

With all those things that get under my skin