A dialogue in verse between a well-known writer and one of his or her creations
‘Oh why did you snaffle my toes
When I once had twice times five?’
‘Why squabble so, Pobble? It’s nonsense I cobble.
Be thankful I left you alive!’
‘And did you on purpose a porpoise invent
To rip off my wrap with malicious intent?’
‘I invent what I will in my ludicrous art
As is fair, I declare, for a poet at heart.’
‘Is it fair that a Pobble should hobble
On tootsies deprived of their toes?’
‘I can see you’re averse to what seems like a curse
But in nonsense rhyme anything goes.’
‘Yes, anything goes, even toes so it seems,
Oh why must you go to such silly extremes?’
‘Because, though I grant that your toes may be missed,
Without me, poor Pobble, you wouldn’t exist.’
Based on ‘The Pobble Who Had No Toes’ by Edward Lear.
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