Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
Why does a chicken? I don't know why.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fish can't whistle and neither can I.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

this week’s theme: poems written by fictional characters - metapoets, if you will.

This charming little snippet of verse was written by one of my favourite characters, a Bear of Very Little Brain, Winne-the-Pooh. I remember having been fascinated by the surrealism of the 6th line from my childhood days, long ago when all the world and time was young…

… I continue to be fascinated by it :-)

As for what sort of beast a Cottleston Pie is, a search of the Web revealed only the following URL:

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~chpeters/cottleston_pie/

Enjoy!

— Thomas