Save The Children

For charity, save the children.
You can freeze them now, you know.
You need not eat a whole one
In one overfilling go.

Be sure to keep meats separate,
In a different freezer drawer
And label each bag carefully
So you know when it is for.

Keep cooked meats away from raw,
Or else, by and by,
You may find yourself suffering
With a dose of E-coli!

Be sure that when you're roasting them,
Use a young and tender age,
I often find mine pleasantly mix
With a seasoning of sage.

They taste a bit like chicken,
So pile on that cranberry sauce!
And remember 10%
Goes to charity of course.

On the whole, they're not expensive
And some even come from free
If you wait outside a busy school
At around 3:30.

But never eat your neighbours child.
Some rules here must apply.
To uphold a common decency,
Don't eat the passers by!

Just visit your friendly butcher,
Some advice he'll duly give
On when to have your children
And how long to let them live.

But be careful while you have them,
Many come to a sticky end,
If you carelessly allow them
To go around to play with a friend.

Watch your children carefully,
Don't let them wander away,
Lest they wind up someone else's roast
A week come this Sunday.

The moral of my story,
As is very plain to see,
Is that children aren't worth keeping
Much past the age of three.

They get expensive and they're noisy
And behave badly at school,
So follow them up sensibly
With a creamy raspberry fool.