Beach Jokes
Ocean, with her wavy hair,
Had come to Shore with some jokes to share.
The first had a whale of a final phrase;
It made Shore laugh for days and days:
“Why did the orca cross the sea?
To get to the other tide.” Hee-hee!
The next one had such an awesome punch,
It made Shore drop his coelenterate lunch.
This one really put him in stitches:
“Witches on beaches are called sand-witches.”
The third one, though, made Shore quite mad,
Because the joke was thoroughly bad:
Say, what do sharks like to eat for dinner?
Fish and ships. (No trophy winner!)
Now Shore thought Sea was starting to grate,
So Sea receded at breakneck rate,
And didn’t come back till the tide came in,
Then started her jokes all over again.
She tickled Shore’s every shell and pebble,
Till he yelled, “No more!” in a piercing treble
So loud, the pendulum-tide stood still
And the moon flew away and the Earth grew chill,
Till the spell was broken suddenly
When an orca once more crossed the sea ...
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