À la recherche du croissant perdu

One full fraudulent English every week VOL 1: Mangetout

1. THE UNDERTAKER’S KIPPER

William Sockspear

At Bletchley’s funeral, after rain,
Sir Giles took toast and called it pain.
“Good morrow, egg,” he gravely said,
“Thou yellow sun among the dead.”

I fear the bacon knew too much,
The marmalade had lost its touch,
And all the mourners, black and thin,
Looked fondly at the buttered sin.

Surely grief is not so grand
It ca…