Whatever Your Name Is Poem by Francis Duggan

Whatever Your Name Is



You don't have to tell me I already know
That a currawong is not a kin of a crow
Similar in colour and in size but the comparison ends there
As little in common they do seem to share.

You don't have to tell me the koala is not a bear
That's something of which I'm already aware
And you must think that I am one simple of mind
When you try to convince me pigs can see the wind.

I know unlike dogs that cats cannot bark
And that a dolphin is a marine mammal and not a species of shark
And a sheep and a goat I can tell apart
But that doesn't prove I'm in any way smart.

By the way you speak to me you must think I'm a fool
And though I've not spent much of my lifetime in school
Whatever your name is Bill, Johnny or Don
I know when somebody is having me on.

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