“Pig sit still in the strainer
I must have my Pig tea”
Spike Hawkins (1943) British writer
Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm
“My shoe has caught a Pig
I am a Pig Trap”
Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm
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I am a Pig Trap" by Spike Hawkins?
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