Verses old are here re-told: re-written to be weird or bold.

Roses are red, violets are blue –

But look at a violet: it just isn’t true.

Have you set your brain upon autopilot?

Take a good look: you’ll see violets are violet.

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Unless it is covered with chemical spray

That’s failing to keep little germies away:

They resist it much better now, day after day.

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Little Boy Blue, come play with a Wii;

It’s much more exciting than outdoors can be.

More grand than a sandbox, the games that it plays:

Just feed it forever upon fresh AA’s.

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Tom, Tom, the piper’s son,

Stole a pig and away did run.

The swineherd’s taxes paid the fee

For Tommy’s psychotherapy

While Tom, Tom, the piper’s son

Stole ev’ry day another one –

Said Tommy’s shrink: “Observe: he feels

Much more at peace, each time he steals!”

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A sailor went to sea, sea, sea

To see what he could see, see, see,

But all that he could see, see, see

Was the oil spilled by BP, P, P!

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Tele-Doodle, Marketer,

Thinks he has the power

To make a call and bug us all

Throughout the dinner hour.

Tele-Doodle, give it up:

Tele-Doodle phoney:

We won’t give ear to your career

Riding on baloney!

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Star light, star bright, 

Only star I’ll see at night –

For nowadays, the cities’ light

Keeps starry nights from human sight.

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