nursery rhymes that make you jump

you possessed only a small wooden boat.
you swam. boy could you swim. you could swim the length and breadth and depth of the atlantic and you would need no rest. you could make it. that much you knew.
if the going got tough you could stretch yourself out like a lily pad and float yourself home, adrift, awake; aware.
your words broke in fibonacci wave sequence; your thoughts mirrored ebbs and flows of tidal movements.
your hair caught in the plug of the deep blue sea and so you chopped it off with an old cracked shell.
you sang ' tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor' as i jumped to an old blue skipping rope. beat after beat held us locked in an ancient hypnotic rhyme.
you knew not what it all could mean and so you jumped.

you possessed only a small wooden boat.