True shoe tales – backstory to a nursery rhyme

 
  
Ever wonder how nursery rhymes got started?  I do, when my mind is vacant and fills up with deep questions like, what prompted an old woman to live in a shoe?  My thoughts drift.  Mmm...

"A young artist named Carmen set out to paint shoes

but the shoes were so many she was unable to choose

Then along came a no-good named Willy the weasel

he slinked into her life and slithered next to her easel

He opened a fifth of vintage Scotch whiskey

and soon the two of them began to get frisky

Now Willy he was slower than a turtle

but young Carmen she was amazingly fertile

Carmen's much older now and wiser than before

Willy's still a weasel and she showed him the door

Then Carmen packed up and moved into a shoe

she had so many children what else could she do?"

 

Yeah, yeah, I know.  Don't quit the day job just yet.

Comments

[cj]

Yeah, you might not want to quit the day job just yet, HA. cj