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Let Me Sink Your Battleship

Another accidental poem, this time about childhood stuff

By Paul StewartPublished 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago 1 min read
Let Me Sink Your Battleship
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Let me sink your battleship

With my yellow rubber ducky

I've got an Optimus Prime

You've got a tub of slime

Your boy's a no show

I've got He-Man and Lion-O

You've got She-ra and a Yo-Yo

Let's play Star Wars, I'm Lord Vader

You can be Old Ben in the landcruiser

Who's your favourite wrestler?

Macho man or maybe Hulk Hogan

Hacksaw Jim Duggan or Big Bossman?

Mine is The Phenom, The Deadman, The Undertaker

The tombstone piledriver is a shoulder breaker

If you have a ruler, you have a machine gun

In my day, you didn't need a nerf blaster gun

Let's play a game of hide and seek or tig (some people call it tag)

Then we'll eat a tonne of sweets like pigs

Afterwards have some fun on the atari for ping pong ping pong

Who do you think would win in a fight, Snoopy or Stretch Armstrong?

Do you really know what Snow says in his big hit "Informer"?

It sounds like Snow says "ah licky bum-bum down" in "informer"

Cycling is fun, especially pulling a wheelie and handsfree

Watch out riding downhill, don't want wrapped around a tree

Let's all laugh when we have to dance the Gay Gordons at school

Ghostbusters, The A-Team and Sam Beckett and Al were all very cool

I wish I could back, even just in my head, from time to time

So, please lets drift in my mind and sink your battleship

With my yellow rubber ducky

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: Another day, another weird one that basically started out with the first two lines and then I just took it in the direction it went.

Hope you enjoyed it - let me know in the comments, as always, feedback, thoughts and things are appreciated and encouraged.

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About the Creator

Paul Stewart

Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.

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  • Grz Colm2 years ago

    Informer!! Lol. I use to love that song and clip! Hahah. That really takes me back. Missed reading your crazily funny pieces Paul! Most of the refs I got except a couple. 😁

  • Cathy holmes2 years ago

    That was fun, and brought back some great memories.

  • RP2 years ago

    Lol, I love this Paul! Well-done.

  • Kristen Balyeat2 years ago

    This is such a fun piece, Paul! See much of this in my boys. Love the way you ended this! You can write it all, my friend, from the dark to the light and playful!

  • I wish I can go back too! I enjoyed your poem Sir Paul! 🍩🥐

  • Kendall Defoe 2 years ago

    A lot of overlap in our childhoods, I see... 😉

  • L.C. Schäfer2 years ago

    You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals!

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