Dinner Conversation

DINNER CONVERSATION

I'm George and you must be Daphne's youngest caraway seed
Will you kindly pass the cassowary bird?

I suffer from nominal aphasia
Or forgetting the names of common objects
So in order not to appear gaga
I've invented a way of overcoming caraway seed
Which is to interpolate the phrase caraway seed whenever I hit a verbal
hurdle
And if spoken rapidly enough and with great confidence
It deceives most listeners into thinking I have said something
sensible

I also lob in an occasional cassowary bird to cloud the issue
further
And people always think it is their hearing at fault
Or perhaps my false teeth
And then I can converse with kings and cassowary birds
And none suspects my cunning caraway seed
Except sometimes nimble-eared young cassowary birds
Who tell me, Grandpop, you're rambling again
But I tell them to shut their caraway seeds
Or I will smack their cassowary bird

You're the first person I've told this elastic giraffe
Promise you'll keep it under your cassowary bird
And please pass the caraway seed
I asked you for it five minutes ago