Poem "The Professor and the Bumjugoob"

The Professor and the Bumjugoob

By Richard H. Fay

A perambulating professor of preparatory pedagogics
Wandering beside a well-shaded Wannerran waterhole
Meets a bouncing blue-green bumjugoob bounding by.
The eager educator engages the creature in conversation,
But the bumjugoob babbles a bunch of balderdash
Which prods the pedantic professor to plunge into the pool.
“Snik, snok, snek, syntal stems seem a sumplicious snack!”
The blithering bumjugoob blathers bodaciously.
“Stop assaulting my senses with senseless drivel,”
The soaked and tortured tutor tells his turquoise tormentor.
“Boo, baa, bee, a bingledoo barb in my bum bodgers me!”
The bombastic blue-green beast blabbers and bleats.
“My god, no more mindless muck, my mind will melt!”
 The pained and perturbed professor pleads piercingly.
 “So, sa, si, a scarlet sownseet sets the siddypips singing!”
"End this nasty nonsense!" the nettled academic cries, 
But the nonsensical neologist natters on, and on, and on, 
Which prompts the problem-plagued prof to drown himself.