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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cricket!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I rose in the dark, felt my way through the room, <br>We have no en-suite so I groped in the gloom, <br>The bladder is dicky at my time of life<br>So I tried to get out without waking the wife.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But outside the door stood a figure I knew<br>From the Halloween Party the wife had been to, <br>A monkey, who stood like a simian guard<br>Holding something quite furry, and rigid and hard! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I said, 'Step aside! I must get to the loo<br>Or there may be an accident, all over you! '<br>So he did, with a grunt, and I staggered away<br>Down the hall to the loo, at the break of the day.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But when I returned he had quite disappeared<br>And I entered the bedroom to see what I feared, <br>For there on the bed causing all sorts of strife<br>He was up to his armpits in Molly, my wife! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I called out - 'Old chap! Now that's not really nice<br>Coming in from the jungle and bonking my wife! '<br>He just went on grunting and humping away<br>As my wife lay there snoring, ignoring the day.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'I know what your name is! ' I said, 'Ken de Groot! <br>I was there, watched you hiring that old monkey suit! <br>You're from the same club, you're a first order bat<br>But I don't think it's cricket what you're playing at! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The wife kept on snoring, I thought it was strange<br>With her legs round his neck, like some act, pre-arranged, <br>But I didn't dare wake her, she might have a fit<br>If she woke to a monkey just doing his bit! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He got up and left, I was sadly distressed<br>Though I tried not to show it, she woke up and dressed.<br>'Is there anything wrong my sweet possum? ' I said, <br>'Nothing dear... but I dreamt of a monkey in bed! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The following morning it happened again, <br>I rushed to the loo as the monkey went in, <br>I tore off his mask; not de Groot - Eddie Burns! <br>It seems the whole Cricket Club takes it in turns! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then day after day it was more like a zoo, <br>Not just monkeys, but rhino's, and elephants too, <br>They start before dawn and they line up three deep<br>While my neighbour's say: 'How d'you expect us to sleep? '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">While Molly still slumbers away every morn, <br>The rhino turns up once a week with his horn, <br>I knew when I met her she'd always kept pets, <br>But now she gets checked every week at the vets! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So bowing to fate, I threw open the door<br>The Cricket Club loves dressing up, I keep score.<br>I stand by the door - not to watch what they did<br>But to bolster my pension each day - fifty quid! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">5 December 2009</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a></strong></div>