Here's a reworking of something I cooked up earlier:
A postman's artificial thumb, a peat-fired whistling kettledrum,
A tissue-paper butterdish, an artificial jellyfish,
A ball of electronic string, a postcard (franked) from Mafeking,
A stuffed sea-elephant, a corn scarf (slightly foxed), a vamping horn,
A bar of Martian saddle-soap, an armour-plated, clockwork pope,
A Long-John-Silver folding crutch, an automated cockroach hutch,
A set of silver bat detectors, three crocheted genital protectors,
A sausage magnet (batteries included), a prosthetic sneeze,
A chocolate nose, a midget pig, a ceremonial pubic wig
(As used by royalty), a cork divan, a cardboard tomahawk
Complete with self-adjusting trunnions, a string of alcoholic onions,
A box of sugared quinquiremes, a cornucopia of dreams,
A witches' dance about the pyre, a cleansing dose of holy fire,
An exorcism, couth and canny, taught me by my sainted granny.
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