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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2019, 11:16 AM Oct 2019

Now why did this childhood poem spring into my mind?

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;

He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,

And they all lived together in a little crooked house.