Especially for Dave

My friend Dave was on the Metro a couple of days ago. He was wrestling with the tricky task of rhyming the word "doggerel".

So here is a little thing I call...

"Doggerel".

A poet I know asked for help with a rhyme,

I said, "Let me try, what is it this time?"

He said, "Doggerel."

I said, "I know what you write but regarding your plight,

What is the word that you cannot get right?"

He said, "Doggerel!"

I said, "I see what you mean, it is really quite hard,

You'd have to be quite a spectacular bard,

To rhyme, "Doggerel."

He said, "I've read your poetry blog,and I thought it OK

And while I can't find a rhyme I think I can say

Such a blogger'll.

I said, "I'll do my best, if that's OK

At least for the moment I won't run away

Like a jogger'll.

I shall work very hard, work till I drop

Till I find an answer, I simply won't stop

No good slogger'll.

I'll call up my friends if I can't make it scan,

One is a lumberjack and if anyone can,

Then a logger'll.

And if he fails there's a man who makes shoes

Who I'm certain might well have a word we can use,

Yes that clogger'll."

He said, "All these words that you've tried seem to cheat,

Maybe we should throw in the towel in defeat,

Faced with 'doggerel'."

I sighed and then used an American voice

And said, "Then perhaps your first and best choice,

Is 'inaugural'."