A Penny Saved ...

A Penny Saved...

A penny saved, the cliché goes,
is not always what it seems.
I saved a woman the other day
who had fallen in a stream.

She was so grateful for my deed
that she followed me around.
Her constancy of devotion
had me wishing that she'd drowned!

It turns out her name was Penny.
She was just trying to be nice
but I couldn't stand her hanging 'round
'cause she constricted like a vise!

As fate would have it one day,
as she was in the street,
she was killed by a speeding car
which knocked her off her feet.

Her family took her last remains
to a place and had them burned.
The Penny that I saved
was now a Penny urned.


Notes
An entry in "School Daze Nursery Rhyme Extravaganza"  [E]

Inspired by See-Saw, Margery Daw  . which brought thoughts of Benjamin Franklin's saying. ( OK - it's a stretch but I couldn't get it out my head ... so I wrote it!}

Thank you for taking time to read my words. I would appreciate it if you took a moment and left a comment. Your reaction, impressions, criticisms, - yes, even praise - are all equally welcome.

Ken