Ohh, here in me mad world
Everything happens at the speed of light
That's 186,000 miles per second to you and me!
I was thinking - what to do
If we ever have an extra second in the year
As we did a while ago?
I wanted to spread it out
Not spend it all at once!
I wanted to go to the Moon
But that's 238,000 miles away
It would take too long - about 1.3 seconds
I've not got 0.3 of a second to spare - far too much time!
Then another 1.3 seconds to get home again
Plus all the time I actually stay on the Moon
Well, I've suggestions - you got any too?
In that second I could maybe:
Eat 849 pork pies
Drink 643 sherries - with water added!
Read 846 poems - swoony ones!
Then Fido me watchdog will bark 846 times
Or take 257 trips to Australia and back
Or make 674 visits to the 99p Shop
Cos the Pound Shop is far too expensive!
Why, I would save £6.74 in a second
Makes sense to me!
Or watch this clip 842 times and spot Fido in it.....
I've not worked out if all these things would be possible
I've not done the calculations
Oh it's a fine old life in this old land
Cloud Cuckoo Land, that is! heehee
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A poem in no metre at all, in a mad interlude!
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Comments4
Never mind the second what about the extra quarter day we get each year...?
Why do I have to wait 4 years to get it back? TAXATION gone mad that is! Orchi Mad i Tell ya
Did you get a calculator for Christmas???
Thanks Andrew. Ohh I know, they tax anything these days. Only about a year to go for the 'refund' of a leap year day again. Wish it was an extra day, say in August, not February Winter!
Dog in bath - pronounced barth - I'm a southerner don't you know. What am I going to say next? Hang on a second! Darn it that is another one lost - can I get it back? Actually I did enjoy the maths lesson.
Thanks M. I say barth here in the South. You had that baath yet? Is how you say it? Karl Barth? A theologian. You say glasss, passs, etc too?
It's a long time since we saw one of your wonderfully dappy poems Orchi, great fun write. I used that second to drink an unwatered Scotch.
Thanks Gold. Ahh you sneaked in on that second before I got the water!
An informative write Orchi and thank you.
Thanks Fay.
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