Poetry to get rid of folk at Dinner Parties

Tick tick tick

I can hear a ticking sound

Something is ticking but I don’t know what

What manner of device is making a noise it should not

Tick tick ticking, I cant tell from where

And no one else seems to care

But it is out there somewhere in the dark

Like an annoying distant persistent dogs bark

Ticking tick tick tick in my mind

So I will go and hunt until I find

That tick before it drives me mad

Like an old grandfather clock

But with no cheery chime

Tick tick tick all the time

I had no plans to write a ticking rhyme

But it is there ticking in my mind

The same constant tick we find

In the darkness of every mind

But the tick tick ticking just ticks away

Ticks all morning ticks all day

But was that a click

Not a tick

Who can say

Tick tick click click

Tick tick

Tick

Click

Tick tick click

I can hear a ticking sound

Something is ticking but I don’t know what

What manner of device is making a noise it should not

Tick tick ticking,

Tick tick ticking,

Tick tick ticking,

Tick tick ticking,

Tick tick ticking,

Tick tick ticking,

Tick tick ticking,

Tick tick tick

Tick tick tick

Tick tick tick

Tick tick tick

Tick tick tick

Tick

People say I’m mad you know very very mad

But I can still hear it

Ticking
It will not go

Unlike all my dinner guests
Who have flown away in
Flying Nests?