NO THANQUERAY!

Browsing through an old diary from 1971, I came across a piece of doggerel I wrote in the style of Ogden Nash...

The Second Mrs Tanqueray

or

Once Bitten, Bite Back

The second Mrs Tanqueray

Indulged in hanky-panqueray;

Without so much as thanqueray,

She took from Mr Tanqueray

The money in his banqueray,

Then turned to drink and dranqueray,

While Mr T's hopes sanqueray.

His form grown lean and lanqueray

(Within his breast a canqueray),

He bought a knife and sanqueray

The blade in Mrs Tanqueray,

Which – to speak quite franqueray –

Stopped her hanky-panqueray

But hanged poor Mr Tanqueray.