Bobby Goosey Poem, "Blue"

 

Bobby Lee Goosey

 

                                                                                 Blue
Wally Ballou went to the zoo.
A man stood there selling balloons.
Wally Ballou bought a blue blue balloon,
A sky-blue cerulean blue blue balloon,
A lazuline azure balloon.
 
As Wally Ballou made the rounds of the zoo,
The wind blew the blue blue balloon,
And whipped it away from poor Wally Ballou,
That sky-blue cerulean blue blue balloon,
That lazuline-lovely balloon.
 
High up in the sky blew the blew blue balloon,
The wind blew the blue blue balloon,
Till it caught on a cloud hanging over the zoo,
That sky-blue cerulean blue blue balloon,
That lazuline-azure balloon.
 
So what could he do? He was blue, was Ballou;
He stood looking up, shedding tears.
For it hung on the cloud hanging over the zoo,
That sky-blue cerulean blue blue balloon,
That lazuline-blue blue balloon.
 
Then the wind, who felt sorry for Wally Ballou,
Grabbed sorry Ballou, blew away blue Ballou;
High up in the sky wafted blue blew Ballou
Till he caught on that cloud hanging over the zoo,
Right next to his blue blew balloon.
 
He liked it so much he decided to stay,
Right there on that cloud with his blue blue balloon.
They live on quite happily there to this day,
That sky-blue cerulean Wally Ballou
And his lovely azure blue balloon.

 [from the book by Bobby L. Goosey,  A Compendium of Perfectly Sensible Nonsense]