(A Work In Progress)

 

Humpty Dumpty’s Fall

 

Picasso would have loved Humpty Dumpty

But only after his fall

 

One Eyed Jack

Fired Humpty true

But Marry, Saint that she was

Couldn’t keep the walls from tumbling down

 

All the king’s men

In a Cavalier effort

Couldn’t raise that big ole boy back in to place

Even with all their horses

 

To the Royalists dismay

The Roundheads took Colchester

After eleven weeks of siege

 

War is never civil

Especially when it goes by that name

Even if it’s spoken

in England’s proper speech

 

Stories told to children

Lose something over time

Especially in Humpty’s case

With that happy little rhyme

 

A cracked egg would have fit in well

With Picasso’s frame of mind

But Pablo was two hundred years too late

And 1700 miles south

 

A cannon fairs much better

If it should take a fall

And

Humpty’s not a fat man

Nor egg that tumbled down

 

The walls

They fell in battle

Mid July 1648

The knights they tried in vein

To lift that big ole cannon

Back up on to a wall

 

Try as they might

Humpty was just too big

The town of Colchester fell

On August twenty eighth

 

I tried to force this one, it never works. When I write it comes out of me by itself. I have to read it later to know what it says. When I force it, this is what I get. I’ll work on it later. I think the Picasso part will have to go. I started with an egg in mind and then went to the real story and lost my path.

 

 Some info taken from here but some came from previous research, the sources of which are long forgotten. -

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