The Story of Dr. Goose

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His classmates at school, they were all very cruel,
They called him such names as “The Elephant Fool”,
They called him “Pinnochio”, “Nose” and “Caboose”,
But the name that stuck with him.. you guessed it.. was Goose,


Goose didn’t have any friends of his own,
and he got rather used to just being alone,
Accepting his fate, Goose had played by himself,
and read every one of the books on the shelf,


His feelings weren’t crushed, they were just a bit sore,
He wasn’t unhappy, he just wanted more,
There were times, of course, when Goose wasn’t so sad,
and those were the times on the boat with his dad,


A bit overweight, and a warm-hearted gent,
His dad was a fisherman, poor but content,
A very strong man who refused to show fear,
There was no such option as shedding a tear,


In fact, only once in his life, had he cried,
And that was the day that his loving wife died,
Yet some of those tears had been shed out of joy,
for on that same day, she gave birth to their boy,

 

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