Scintillate, Scintillate

Scintillate, scintillate, aster menific;
Fain do I fathom thy nature specific.
Loftily poised in the ether capacious;
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.

--Willard Espy (Or Anonymous, I can't remember which)

On being and nothingness

The other day upon the stair
I met a man that wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
Gee, I wish he'd go away!

--Ogden Nash

The other day upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
He must be from the CIA.
--Mad Magazine.

From A Space Child's Mother Goose

Flappity, Floppity, Flip,
A Mouse on a Moebius strip.
The strip revolved,
The mouse disolved,
In a chrono-dimensional skip.

Hickory dickory dock,
Three mice ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
and the other two escaped with minor injuries.

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle.
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such sight,
And the cow burned up upon reentry.

Mary, Mary, complex and scary,
How does your spectrum glow?
With sodium-glare, in the ionisphere,
and satellites all in a row!"

All things dull and gargully

This is from Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album and is sung to the tune of All Creatures Great and Small.

All things dull and gargully,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that's poisonous,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom,
He made their 'orrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the slimy urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox burns great and small,
Putrid, foul, and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.