Disclaimer: I still do not own the rights to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy five-part trilogy.

In which Paula learns the fun of rhymes.

THE DECAY OF SWANS

Swans in a pond will
Decay over time
Like a lime
On a till
Dead swans will
Decay over time
It's kind of stinky.

They really stink
Of decay
I think
I may
Smell one now
Wonder how
They would smell
If they didn't decay.
(Probably less stinky.)

Switchform!

Slowly the swans in the ponds fall to bits
Shreds of flesh falling and floating away
With maggots riding feathers towards the horizon
The tiny hitchhikers sure know how to hitchhike in style.
But back to the swans as they decay in the pond
It's really quite agonising to watch, 'cause it's
Kind of slow, do you know? No you don't.
No one watches swans decay.
Except me. Sometimes. Especially in May.
People skinny dip in the swan pond then.
Sometimes they drown. And in a day,
They float in the water and start to decay.
Like the swans.
Over time.
Like a lime.
It's kind of stinky.

THE END.