[Jayne Osborn]

Hi Vernon,

Yes, let's give Michael a bonus, especially for that first one!
I can't resist a few more, and as slight variations seem to be permissible:

There once was an Aussie light versican
who likened himself to a pelican
His tense was terse,
His verse was worse.
He loved camping and using his billy-can.

There once was a light versican
who likened herself to a pelican
Her tense was terse,
Her verse was worse.
Her boobs have just burst! (They were silican.)

There once was a light versican
who likened himself to a pelican
His tense was terse,
His verse was worse.
But sadly he died in a hurrican.

(The mis-spellings are deliberate, btw! )

Jayne

[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

There once was this woeful light versican
who said: "If those boys from the Mersey can -
John Lennon and Paul
McCartney and all -
then surely a boy from New Jersey can."

[D.J.H. Bryant]

Oh, good! There's a rhyme still available!


There once was a lousy light versican
who likened himself to a pelican.
His style was terse;
his verse was much worse.
I hear that his muse was a mannequin.
.
.

[Jayne Osborn]

There are still some unused ones, Devlin!
Taking an extra liberty here, but couldn't help myself:

There once was a fat, heavy versican
who likened himself to a pelican.
His body was far
too big for a car
so he drove around in a pantechnicon.

[Susan d.S.]

There once was a light versican
who likened himself to a pelican
His tense was terse,
His verse was worse,
His comedy fatally Senecan.

[Ed Shacklee]

There once was a light versican
who likened himself to a pelican.
His tense was terse,
His verse was worse --
I avoid him wherever and when I can.

[Michael Cantor]

There once was a horny old versican
who waddled through life like a pelican -
but taught seminars
in the back seats of cars
as a master of out-again-in-again.

There once was a heavy light versican
voracious and stout as a pelican -
she developed a yen
for both women and men
and relabelled herself an invertican.

[Cally Conan-Davies]

This be the verse about versicans
comparing each other to pelicans.
They fought over light.
They were wrong. Now they write
little verses so they can be friends again.

[Ed Shacklee]

Vernon Sims, who's a clever light versican,
has distracted us all with a pelican:
we'd devolved into fighting,
but were tricked into writing --
we could use him, I think, in Afghanistan.

[Michael Cantor]

I'm not such a simple reversican,
so don't think that I won't revert again
to insults and sneers
for I have some fears
that I've run out of good rhymes for "pelican".