an ode to fester with frank and esther
Thursday, July 17, 2008
(originally from summer 2006)
If I ran the circus, if I ran the zoo
I’d meet a Williamson or two.
The first would be Frank, oh Frank, Frank, Frank, Frank
With a build oh so tall (but not quite so lank –
y as once that he was) when he met the so-swanky
Gal at the office (where she was prepared with a soft, ironed hanky –
That came in quite useful for her, might I add, to dry off her hands
When she got them all brown in the hot ocean sands)
Frank, though, he never needed the hanky,
Even when he ate apples (you know the story).
And so they got married, the Esther and Frank
The Frank and the Esther, they festered and grew
And before you knew it – Thing One and Thing Two!
And they grew and they grew and they grew, grew, grew, grew
And suddenly there was a whole slew
Of Williamson children, cute little things who
Always behaved, oh always, always
(Just ask the in-laws to sing their praise-
s, you’ll see – or maybe you won’t)
Moving on rather quickly now
(oh look at the time!)
We’ll jump to grandchildren
And continue the rhyme
In the City of Ocean, the house by the sea
Where to men oh please let me a friend always be.
And a Frank, it was, a-bobbing,
A-bobbing out in the blue.
And Es began to count:
One Frank, another?, two –?
One Frank, two Frank, red Frank, blue Frank
Time to go inside.
(But shower first, be good and sure to get that sand out of your hide!)
And to think that I saw him on 55th Street
With the five hundred curlers of Grandmother Cubbins,
All pink in her hair, and her housedress on, too.
Take a picture, quick, somebody,
(then, display at the fair!)
It’s time for the dinner, it’s time now to sup –
Come on now, and hurry (but no one throw up!)
Now onto dessert, oh, do cut the pie:
Just a sliver of this and a sliver of that
And a dozen more slivers won’t make anyone fat!
But now, dear parents, grand and alike,
I will say this not twice, not treble or thrice,
(For you are all smart, there’s not one single dunce –
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha) – now hang on to your seats,
‘cause you’re only old once!
