Where did this poem come from?

June 19, 2012 1:49 PM

Help me find what the recent limerick thread, and Sokka Shot First's comment dislodged from my memory:

Creepy creepy
Little beastie
Sneaky sneaky
Set the trap

You leave the bait
And go and wait
And pretty soon,
Mickey, snap!

Where did this come from? I suspect I originally saw it from the fortune file on an IBM RS/6000, but even if that's true I doubt its where it originated, and you'd also think it would be Googleable but I can't find it.

posted by Reverend John to Writing & Language (2 answers total)

Best answer: (Re the tag "double dactyl" — this isn't one. This is all trochees and iambs, like "double double toil and trouble", or "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall", not dactyls like "higgledy piggledy". So, you won't find it in compilations of double dactyls, for example. Alas, I have nothing more helpful.)
posted by stebulus at 7:39 PM on July 11, 2012

Response by poster: Man, could the vocabulary of poetry be more opaque?
posted by Reverend John at 2:47 PM on July 22, 2012