The Green Eye of the Little Yellow Dog.

The green is a dye that shows up the ulcer on Merlin's eye that has been refusing to respond to the antibiotic treatment he's been receiving for the last two weeks. Tomorrow morning he's going back to the vet's for some rather unpleasant minor surgery. I'm grateful that I'm not the patient.

Some years ago, we had an annual talent competition in the village and I was the only adult who ever took part; karaoke was the basis of most of the performances, I concentrated on monologues.  I had planned on performing the most lampooned poem in the English language which inspired the title for this blip, but the year I was going to use it was the year the event was discontinued. "The Green Eye" was written by James Milton Hayes who was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and died aged 56 in the early years of the Second World War; Hayes himself claimed that it wasn't poetry but it did serve a purpose.

My lampoon runs:
There's a one-eyed yellow mongrel roams the streets of Kathmandu,
And he only has three legs to walk upon.
He's not so bloomin' happy 'bout his missing offside rear
But, at least he has the bones for chewing on.

That's not poetry either.
I find it is interesting that, at school, we used to sing the various parodies to the  tune, "Road to the Isles."
Please feel free to post your variants in the comments.


I've just posted last Monday's blip of "Wild Garlic?"