Number 96, The Strange Case of Mr Long.

The Strange Case of Mr Long.

Mr Long was very short,
At only five feet small.
One day he was taken short,
And went behind a wall.

Behind the wall was safe he thought,
But he was not at all;
A bulldozer some men had brought,
With a wrecking ball.

The wall was beaten down to nought,
Every brick did fall,
Mr Long was sadly caught;
His trousers down and all.

Mr Long was took to court,
And thereby did he call,
Expert witnesses who fought,
A kind of legal brawl.

It seemed the prosecution sought,
To prove that he did crawl,
Naked through the site they’d bought,
And gave him quite a maul.

But Mr Long knew how he ought,
To get the case to stall
Arguing how he’d been taught,
To go for the long-haul.

The prosecution had been fraught,
And brought with quite some gall;
The judge said this was not a sport,
And Mr Long walked tall!

© Stephen Saunders