There once were two cats, they were both siamese.
They did nothing all day but to gobble swiss cheese.
The mice in that country felt totally at ease
Due to the cats obsession with cheese!
The cats would gulp cheese down all day and all night!
Yes, for these siamese cheese was quite a delight.
The cheese, you might wonder, from where was it’s source?
(Enough couldn’t be packed on the back of a horse!)
The cheese source, of course, was a pit in the ground
Where an endless supply of swiss cheese could be found.
Cheese from the ground could be quite rank.
All but the cats were sure that it stank.
But one day, those siamese started to sneeze…
They were both overcome with swiss cheese allergies!
They tried hard to get some relief for their noses
By carefully smelling some prickly roses,
But that didn’t work, and I’m sorry to say
That they sneezed and they sneezed for the rest of the day.
Their malady continued on into the night.
By morning each cat was a most frightful sight!
Their noses were purple from oh so much sneezing,
And when I say purple, it’s true! I’m not teasing!
The fame of these sneezers spread far and wide
To every country on every side.
And wherever they went, they would constantly sneeze.
They were known as the Sneezing Swiss Cheese Siamese!
They even began to learn sneezy tricks
Like jumping through hoops while walking on sticks.
Huge crowds came together from lands cold and warm
To watch these two siamese sneezers perform.
But alas, one day, to their utter dismay,
Their sneezes suddenly went away!
Sneeze doctors were baffled and scratched their heads bald.
The skeptics all laughed, and the crowds were appalled!
The two siamese felt such horrible shame,
They hid themselves, then played a quiet chess game.
As they sat and swiped pawns in their secret seclusion,
The rest of the earth was in utter confusion.
The headlines announced, “Where have they gone?”
Someone even searched underneath of their lawn!
Soon everyone searched, even judges and mayors,
While the two cats played chess like professional players.
Their game skills became so incredibly grand
That folks flocked, once again, from all over the land!
They had just reached the point that they always could win,
When they suddenly started to sneeze once again!!!
Sneezy tricks at chess games began to come back.
They could juggle those pieces with most skillful knack!
But then, they discovered the way not to sneeze:
To simply stop stuffing their mouths with swiss cheese!
So these two siamese stopped their cheese-eating ways,
And they sneezed not once more to the end of their days!
-By Gideon and Mama
