Kate O'Neil
  • About Kate
  • Poems for Children I
    • Gargoyle Guile
    • A Fairy's Day
    • Wynken,Blynken and Nod
    • Emergency!
    • Waiting for James
    • Blue Jeans Rap
    • Bedtime Boogie
    • Decibel
    • The Scared Scarecrow
    • Auntie Jean
    • Maximouse
    • Telling the Fleas
    • The Means of Grace
    • Worm-Farm Blues
    • Liar BIrd
  • Poems for Children II
    • Class Rules
    • Scribbly Gums
    • The Back of Beyond
    • Thackaringas
    • Barefoot
    • Mango Spell
    • Coo-ee
  • Poems for Children III
    • The Reading Bug Explorer
    • Mutt Sings the Blues
    • Tree-Toad Tragedy (for Troy)
    • Sea Sparkle
    • The Kid from Camdenville
    • The Yarn of Shaun the Sheep
  • Poems starring Prima Donna
    • Prima Donna and the School Uniform
    • Prima Donna and the Lollipop Man
    • Prima Donna Reviews the Zoo
    • Prima Donna Chooses a Pet
  • Poems from 'Let in the Stars'
    • High Achievers
    • Paragliders Bald Hill Lookout
    • Sondry Folk
  • Poems - Silly Stuff
    • Classy Darcy
    • Happy as Larry
    • Idyllicacryliclycralyric
    • Home Thoughts from Australia
    • Language Teachers
    • The Man Behind the Mower
    • Time Out
    • Twitterpation
    • Beetrootome
    • The Quick Brown Fox
    • Animal Feed Available at Restaurant
  • Poems - More Silly Stuff
    • Apples and Pears
    • Mind your Ps and Qs: A Cautionary Tale
    • UQ
  • Sydney Poems
    • Lament of the kangaroo gargoyle on the clock tower – Sydney University
    • “Giraffe Removals. All Suburbs.” (Sydney billboard)
    • Tom Ugly's Spirit Talks Back
    • Eternity
  • Other Poems
    • 'Skint' or 'The Win'
    • The Cynic Route
    • Man and Moonshine
    • The Touch-Lamp Christmas Angel
    • Cell Door Open
    • Sunflowers at Wilcannia
    • A wheatfield, very yellow...
    • Hills Hoist
    • Hosts
    • His Publisher to Adam
    • Imagine
    • Carnival of the Animals
  • Buzzings from the Bees in my Bonnet
    • On Being Elocuted
    • Poetry and the Role of the Toe in Scansion
    • Some Thoughts on teaching Don Quixote.
    • John Thelwall: “Citizen” John, political activist, atheist reprobate, acquitted felon, poet, Professor of Elocution and speech therapist.
    • On 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Contact Kate

Mind your Ps and Qs
A Cautionary Tale


The ticket’s important.
Your favourite show
is almost sold out
but you’re dying to go.
 
You groan at the queue
but you can’t walk away;
there’s no other chance.
You must see it today
 
Yes, you’re dying to go,
But not just to the show.
One coffee too many,
and the queue is so slow.
 
The choice is so cruel,
What will you do?
You have to choose now:
The queue or the loo?
 
It’s Nature that wins,
As Nature will do,
but you’ll know next time
that it’s ‘P’ before ‘Q’.
 



ACP “Queue” prompt March 2016

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