Однажды Константин Бальмонт
Отправил голову в ремонт.
(И, что особенно отвратно,
Просил скорей вернуть обратно.)
...Увы – как завещал Бернулли,
Башку поэту не вернулли...
Поэты! Вам урок, compadres:
Пишите свой обратный адрес!
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THE HEADLESS GARDENER (Ian Serraillier)
A gardener, Tobias Baird,
Sent his head to be repaired;
He thought, as nothing much was wrong,
He wouldn't be without it long.
Ten years he's weeded path and plot,
A headless gardener, God wot,
Always hoping (hope is vain)
To see his noddle back again.
Don't pity him for his distress:
He never sent up his address.