(the idea for this poem came because we had been watching something on netflix and mommy asked "why are you typing Merlin pirates?" Daddy said "I was trying to type pirates but I can't get the word Merlin to go away")
It was a pirated version of a Merlin movie
(I watched it on a widescreen TV)
he was head of some pirates and led them to sea
to a Model Modern Major General of the Military
who taught them how to be
proper, and always say please.
"When you chop off people's heads,"
he said,
"or walk someone off the plank,
you must never never never spit on the deck;
blow your nose with your hanky,
cover your mouth if you sneeze,
call ladies madame, not by their names, even if it's Eloise.
I think that's it for today, and my, what a breeze."
So those pirates went away;
to terrorize the sea for 10 years and a day.
They never ate with their fingers or cursed,
never cut someone's purse
(just took it by force),
never called ladies but by madame,
ate their scones with strawberry jam,
shot people with a polite farewell,
and always rang the doorbell,
first.
So it's proof,
that's the truth,
that pirates can be
just as polite as you and me.
by Sara n. b.
