About the Poem

Flatulence is the polite word for farting, but there's nothing polite about this fantastic, baked bean fuelled, farting poem.

Category

Rude Rhymes

Style

Cautionary poem

Length

26 lines

Key Stage

KS1, KS2, KS3

Author

Max Scratchmann

Poor Oscar

Poor Oscar, a nonsense poem about farting

Oscar was a little lad who didn’t answer back,
So when they gave him double beans at Maisie’s Luncheon Shack,
He ate them up without a word and ate up all his seconds,
And held his bowl up out for more whenever Maisie beckoned.

Oscar awaits another plate of baked beans

That night, at home, at time for tea, Mum served him mushy peas,
Instead of normal cheese and ham that’d graced a hundred teas,
And then they had stewed figs and cream and day-old rhubarb tart,
And by the time for Oscar’s bed he really had to fart.

Oscar's farts blew the duvet of the bed

He held it in, he tried his best, but, alas, it wasn’t to be,
He blew the duvet off his bed and floated out to sea,
And they still see him, now and then, against the autumn moon,
And old men say, there goes that lad who ate the beans last June.

Oscar floated out to sea

Copyright © Max Scratchmann. All Rights Reserved

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