Who Killed The Robin?

Who Killed The Robin? 

Who killed Cock Robin?

Maybe it was a goblin?

Who is Cock Robin?

A bird or a bobbin?

 

Who cares anyway?

One Robin less today.

What else can I say?

Would this make a play?

 

Robins come and robins go.

Maybe killed by a crow?

I say, I just don’t know.

This would be a dumb show.

 

Why write a poem about it?

Started, didn’t want to quit.

I don’t really give a s—.

Now, now, don’t throw a fit.

 

If Robin were alive today.

I wonder what he would say?

He probably can’t talk anyway.

Just rock, bop, and sing all day.

 

That is if he is a bird.

Remember, the bird is the word.

At least, that’s what I’ve heard.

One thing I haven’t heard.

 

Would be a man named Cock.

I can’t say that name rocks.

He would need to be wise, like a fox.

He would be teased  a lot.

 

So, we come around again.

The beginning is the end.

Who killed Cock Robin?

Too bad, but nobody is sobbing.

—————–R. W. Johnson—–(2016)