Gelett Burgess

On Digital Extremities

I’d Rather have Fingers than Toes; I’d Rather have Ears than a Nose; And As for my Hair, I’m Glad it’s All There; I’ll be Awfully Sad, when it Goes!

The Goops

The meanest trick I ever knew Was one I know you never do. I saw a Goop once try to do it, And there was nothing funny to it. He pulled a chair from

Floorless Room, The

I Wish that my Room had a Floor! I don’t so Much Care for a Door, But this Crawling Around Without Touching the Ground Is Getting to be Quite a Bore!

An Alphabet of Famous Goops

AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS. Which you ‘ll Regard with Yells and Whoops. Futile Acumen! For you Yourselves are Doubtless Dupes Of Failings Such as Mar these Groups We all are Human! 1 ABEDNEGO

A Woman’s Reason

I’m Sure every Word that you say is Absurd; I Say it’s All Gummidge and Twaddle; You may Argue away till the 19th of May, But I don’t like the Sound of the Moddle!