A woman alone in Beijing
    began rather softly to sing,
            but then she got prouder
            and shriller and louder -
    'til both of her eardrums went ping!

    A woman at sea in Shanghai
    quite suddenly started to cry.
            (It was, I believe,
            some warm summer's eve
    at roughly the start of July.)

    I once met a man from Manhattan
    who loved to transform his old satin
            with diamonds and dots
            umbrellas and spots,
    and one rather naughtier pattern.

    Siberia, under my eye,
    seems endlessly arid and dry
            with only one locus
            to narrow the focus:
    the line where the grass meets the sky.

    Said Jeremy: "what I like best
    are girls with a simplified chest,
            and those that I feel
            are simply ideal
    consist of a singular breast."

    A rather devout Buddhist llama
    was having a serious drama
            for - counting up sheep -
            he'd fallen asleep
    and miscalculated his Karma!

    One morning, exploring a thicket,
    Miranda discovered a cricket
            and - finding it charming
            instead of alarming -
    she quickly bent over to lick it.

    A fabulous beast is the spider
    whose legs will grow wider and wider
            yet never explode,
            whatever their load
    of recently-brewed apple cider!

    A pitiful bird is the sparrow
    whose bones are so awfully narrow
            that when we dissect them
            and closely inspect them
    we find there's no room for the marrow!

    McJenkins, the old Irish wizard,
    survived a 4000-year blizzard
            by sighing the spell
            that - when spoken well -
    would turn a man into a lizard.