When my daughter Ellie was about seven she suffered some bullying from a repulsive boy called Sam Wright who used to chant
Ellie, Ellie
Got a fat belly
We cooked up an anwering couplet
Sam Wright is very dumb.
He's got a face like an elephant's bum.
Ellie spread it around and it was chanted by the girls for quite a few days. Sam Wright in tears. Problem solved. An example of the efficacy of poetry in the 'real' world
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