My pen is a wee bit cold, so I don’t think that I have long.
And since I can’t write you a poem,
I thought you might fancy a song.
It’s about a girl born with no hands and the boy she couldn’t hold.
The boy was deaf and blind, it’s just how the story’s told.
She’d wrap her arms around him, and thump his back with her stubs.
He’d screech in terror and find a way to run into some shrubs.
Sometimes you’d see him feeding her at the ice cream shoppe.
Just jabbing her face with a spoon while she cried and screamed “just stop”.
For Christmas he bought her gloves and she got him a dog.
It fell asleep around the fire and he mistook it for a log.
What baffled a lot of folks, is that their names were Betty and Stan.
For the love a soft and supple goat, Betty was the man.
Word has it they got married, and Stan well she said their vows.
And Betty he just stood there, spouting random howls.
They live out in the woods now, their feetless kids play there in the mud.
When you try to talk to them, they just stare out into space and chew on their cud.
