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After all the fuss, fancy, or whatever you do for Mother's Day, you might appreciate a good laugh. My Yankee grandmother used to entertain me as a little burrito with "My Black Hen" from The Space Child's Mother Goose (ISBN 1930900074); the poem popped into my head while I was looking up album dates for things in my digital music collection. The book came back into print a few years ago. You should buy a copy. Probable-Possible, my black hen,
She lays eggs in the Relative When.
She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
Because she's unable to Postulate How.
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Flappity, floppity, flip
The mouse on the Möbius strip.
The strip revolved,
The mouse dissolved
In a chrono-dimensional skip.
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Three jolly sailors from Blaydon-on-Tyne
They went to sea in a bottle by Klein.
Since the sea was entirely inside the hull
The scenery seen was exceedingly dull.
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Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep,
The radar has failed to find them.
They'll all, face to face,
Meet in parallel space,
Preceding their leaders behind them.
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This little pig built a spaceship,
This little pig paid the bill;
This little pig made isotopes,
This little pig ate a pill;
And this little pig did nothing at all,
But he's just a little pig still.
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Little Miss Muffet
Sits on her tuffet
In a nonchalant sort of a way.
With her force field around her
The spider, the bounder,
Is not in the picture today.
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This is the way the Physicist rides:
a quantum, a quantum, a quantum.
This is the way the Agronomist rides:
I plant 'em, I plant 'em, I plant 'em.
This is the way the Philosopher rides:
O Plato! O Plato! O Plato!
This is the way that the Rocketman rides:
JATO! JATO! JATO!
