mician@usfvax2.UUCP (Rudy Mician) (04/06/89)
"A big black bird screamed Roto-Rooter"
and away go troubles down the drain.
The "Raving"...read and take heed.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious
volume of forgotten lore.
While I nodded in the hushing, suddenly
there came a rushing, as of someone
slowly flushing water 'cross my chamber
floor. Only this and nothing more.
Eagerly I wished the morrow, vainly I
sought to borrow plungers to relieve my
sorrow, mops to dry the soggy floor.
I slowed it down and nothing more.
Ankle deep in water standing, long I stood
there wheezing, panting, weeping, cursing
curses no mortal ever cursed before. As the
mess was slow subsiding, my thoughts were
strong to go a-riding to dry my troubled
clothes, perhaps to find a liquor store.
I jumped astride my motor scotter, a big
black bird screamed "Roto-Rooter"!
"And away go troubles down the drain" --
Roto-Rooter. Quoth the raven: "Evermore."
(c) 1979 Roto-Rooter
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