Bristling Billy the porcupine,
A person that nobody liked,
Sinking a shaft on an ant-bed mine,
Came on a burrowing lizard's line,
And the lizard was badly spiked.
"You're a blundering fool," said the snake's half-brother -
And that was how one thing led to another.
-- from The Diggers by A. B. Paterson
Sure, the "Billy" will work.
The Muse is a whore, a churl, a bore,
a packet of crisps on the shelf --
instead of a name for some trumped-up dame
just admit that you've played with yourself
A person that nobody liked,
Sinking a shaft on an ant-bed mine,
Came on a burrowing lizard's line,
And the lizard was badly spiked.
"You're a blundering fool," said the snake's half-brother -
And that was how one thing led to another.
-- from The Diggers by A. B. Paterson
Sure, the "Billy" will work.
The Muse is a whore, a churl, a bore,
a packet of crisps on the shelf --
instead of a name for some trumped-up dame
just admit that you've played with yourself
It could be worse