Hickory dickory dock
Time is a melting clock
The hourglass sand
Slips through my hand
Hickory dickory dock
Hickory dickory dock
The windows need new caulk
Body falling apart!
When did this start?!
Hickory dickory dock
Hickory dickory dock
It’s getting harder to walk
No pep in these steps
Need some vodka and Schweppes
Hickory dickory dock
Hickory dickory dock
Did somebody just knock?
Dark spectre with sickle
Well, this is a pickle!
Hickory
dickory
dock
This is my response to this week’s W3 Prompt: write a poem inspired by a nursery rhyme.
I had so many ideas — Georgy-Porgy being taken down by the Me-Too movement. Mary being served a delicious lamb dinner and later finding out why her lamb had stopped following her to school. Three blind mice — what kind of mischief could they blindly cause? I settled, however, on Hickory dickory dock.
The picture was created by moi using ChatGPT
Hot Dogs and Marmalade 
This is fabulous and very creative!! I love your Hickory, Dickory, Dock poem, Sally. 💜
Yikes!
That’s the response I was looking for!
Sally this one is chilling and so well done!! Bravo!
Excellent poem Sally
Love it!
Very well done, Sally. Excellent take.
I prefer this to the original 🙌
Haha — thanks!
Time waits for no one!
🫣💀🖤
Love this Sally – and afraid to say I feel it…! 💞
I have to confess that I had so much fun writing this one
I loved it! So much fun to read.
hi, Sally❣️
Just wanna let you know that this week’s W3, hosted by our beloved Artie, is now live until Monday:
Much love,
David
I like how your poem uses the fun “Hickory Dickory Dock” rhyme to tell a funny story about getting older, ending with a surprising knock at the door. ⏰🙂
~David