The Rabbit's prophesy

A rabbit once said to me
As I passed him by one day
He told me not to laugh and shout
As I go along my way

When I argued with him
The rabbit, he got irate
For he had warned a thousand folk
Of the fearsome pirate

Now listen good and listen well
The quiet rabbit said
For this pirate, by name of Neville
Had shoes of fiery red.

But I did not listen, and I should have had
For now I lie here dead
For when I met this fearsome dude
I foolishly called him Fred

"O! Fool of fools! You marvellous cretin!"
The fashionable pirate did say
You have mistaken my name dear boy
And for this sin you'll pay

I was cut into a thousand bits
Without a care for hygiene
And in the distance, the rabbit laughed
For nothing rhymed with hygiene

Gordon Strachan