Doggerel Dave

What a Way to Go….

So have you heard of the Darwin Awards?

You would like some explanation no doubt.

The concept is honest which I applaud,  

So let me tell you what it’s all about:  

 

Darwin Awards salute or honour

Improvements to the human gene pool; 

But some might not perhaps find humour  

In the stupidities of a fool 

Whose exit was due to an accident   

Resulting from actions by his own hand.  

However this manner of incident  

Allows more room for a populace so crammed.

                               

Whatever your ethical objection   

Nonetheless this much at least must be said:  

Self administered natural selection    

Means no idiot genes survive when dead.

 

Two examples will now be provided 

In a form without subtlety, quite bold.     

A limerick is very well suited  

When these kind of misadventures are told:   

 

A  young man had a gun on hire  

Which he could not get to fire; 

He looked down the barrel,  

Gave the trigger a fiddle……..  

His end was really quite dire.   

 

A motorized handicapped man    

Was a joker who had a plan:           

Found the lift doors were closed,     

Rammed the doors quite composed 

And went to his end with élan.

 

 

There’s also a special category  

For those who did not manage to go;

As the try was unsatisfactory -   

They’re termed ‘at risk’ survivors and so:  

 

A snake handler, Gordon from Darwin

Had lingered far too long at an inn,  

Picked up a king brown snake 

Which bit him in a shake  

And as he bagged it bit him agin and agin and agin…  x9

 

He’s either a sinner or a saint;

If a sinner then less drink and more dinner.

But not sure which he is and which he ain’t -

If a saint then mortification of the flesh is a clear winner.