Our friends Sooty and Sweep
As funny as it stands.
These puppets on my hands.
Called Sooty and Sweep.
You'll laugh so hard that you'll weep.
Oh, I hope that comedy never goes!
As by its humour it shuns our woes.
Lightens up a dreary day.
In a funny kind of way.
But don't forget about our puppet friends.
It's by their discomfort, our laughter lends.
Thinking of where we put our hands.
Ha, you get it, you understand.
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Karen Burns is 49 and lives in Coventry, England and she is a freelance journalist. Her interests are reading, poetry, writing reviews and she has a blog all about her daughter who has an eating disorder.
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