Be To Prevent / Strictly Germ-proof

EastWesterly Review Dada Cluster

Issue 33 * Fall 2013

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Original -> Korean -> Igbo -> English

New Version: Be To Prevent

Baby and dog sterilization bar
Bunny playing in the garden when gambling;
Consideration as they love and hate -
It does not sterilize it was sterilized.

They are a breeding ground microorganisms;
They are more than a thousand steam steamed;
They hope deported freezing cold and freezer
Permanganate wash with soap and carbonate.

Less sulfur-filled;
Life is a pair of scissors, they trimmed beard happy;
They wore rubber suit, hand-
Elect members of his band to be sterilized.

Micro caucus is a game in the garden;
They are the kind of pure iodine bath 12 times a day;
And each of their food and hygiene poured in the cup you
Puppies and baby rabbits and Prevention.

 

Strictly Germ-proof [Arthur Guiterman]

The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup
Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up;
They looked upon the Creature with a loathing undisguised;—
It wasn't Disinfected and it wasn't Sterilized.

They said it was a Microbe and a Hotbed of Disease;
They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand-odd degrees;
They froze it in a freezer that was cold as Banished Hope
And washed it in permanganate with carbolated soap.

In sulphurated hydrogen they steeped its wiggly ears;
They trimmed its frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears;
They donned their rubber mittens and they took it by the hand
And elected it a member of the Fumigated Band.

There's not a Micrococcus in the garden where they play;
They bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day;
And each imbibes his rations from a Hygienic Cup—
The Bunny and the Baby and the Prophylactic Pup.

As found at http://www.bartleby.com/104/50.html