For World Poetry Day, here’s a departure from limericks. Some experiences on Twitter of weird online shopping substitutions brought to mind Lewis Carroll’s surreal poem A Strange Wild Song – my template here.

She thought she bought some tampons from/

The website Jeff controls,/

She looked again, and saw it was/

A bag of sausage rolls,/

A rather cavalier approach,/

She felt, to plugging holes.

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She thought she bought a walnut loaf/

To share with all of us,/

She looked again and saw it was/

A Tesco’s octopus./

We ate it with our tea because/

She didn’t want a fuss.