Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket 2)

And stopped when he was good.

It soon began to dawn on me

He wasn't very bright,

Because when he was twenty-three

He couldn't read or write.

'What shall we do?' his parents sobbed.

' The boy has got the vapours!

He couldn't even get a job

Delivering the papers!'

'Ah-ha,'I said. 'This little clot

Could be a politician.'

'Nanny,' he cried. 'Oh Nanny, what

A super proposition!'

'Okay,' I said. 'Let's learn and note

The art of politics.

Let's teach you how to miss the boat

And how to drop some bricks,

And how to win the people's vote

And lots of other tricks.

Let's learn to make a speech a day

Upon the TV screen,

In which you never never say

Exactly what you mean.

And most important, by the way,

Is not to let your teeth decay,

And keep your fingers clean.'

And now that I am eighty-nine,

It's too late to repent.

The fault was mine the little swine

Became the President.