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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE METHOD OF THE MAD MULLAH, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: There was a mad mullah whose name was abdulla Last Line: At even his worst ever was! Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition | |||
There was a Mad Mullah whose name was Abdulla (Thus aiding these verses to rhyme). No Mullah was madder, his temper grew badder, Worse, worser and worst all the time! But not every Mullah behaves like Abdulla, And one day a Mullah came by, A Humorous Mullah, who always could cull a Gay laugh, as it were, on the fly! "Ho! Ho! You Mad Mullah," he said to Abdulla, "You scowl and you howl and you yell. But what you are mad about, you, as you gad about, Couldn't explicitly tell! Say listen, Abdulla! I'll bet in your skull a Dissector could not find a brain. With anger you chatter when nothing's the matter, Abdulla, you give me a pain!" "Shut up!" said Abdulla. "You Humorous Mullah! You're fearfully cramping my style. A Very Mad Mullah can easily gull a Large public with venom and bile. For fear I'll get worser they toss me a purse or My stomach with dinners they feed, Whereas, were I smirking, they'd set me to working And that would be madness indeed!" "I see," said the Mullah. "You're subtle, Abdulla, You've shown me a horse of a different colah. Your goose would be cooked if you laughed. So pull all your stages of rancorous rages, I won't interfere with your graft!" The Humorous Mullah then left Mad Abdulla And hustled for home without pause. Now he's a Mad Mullah, more mad than Abdulla At even his worst ever was! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES TEMPER by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN A TRUCKER DRIVES THROUGH HIS LOST YOUTH by DAVID BOTTOMS THE FIGHTING WORD by BERTON BRALEY ON A PROHIBITIONIST POEM by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON A MAIDEN'S DREAM by ROBERT GREENE OUR PROGRAM by ARTHUR GUITERMAN A CRACK AT THE LAW by ADRIAN HALE |
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