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Originally Posted by stepurhan
You couldn't point me to the original version of that poem could you
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step, here's the original that I shamelessly ripped off (also changed the structure and worked in some references to the birthday boy
)... I originally saw this in a short story and poetry reader from my primary school days (y'know, back when school was still called "Cave of Learning"!
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Teevee - by Eve Merriam
In the house
of Mr and Mrs Spouse
he and she
would watch teevee
and never a word
between them spoken
until the day
the set was broken.
Then ‘How do you do?’
said he to she,
‘I don’t believe
that we’ve met yet.
Spouse is my name.
What’s yours?’ he asked.
‘Why, mine’s the same!’
said she to he,
‘Do you suppose that we could be - ?’
But the set came suddenly right about,
and so they never did find out.
