Ballad Of ‘memo’ Roy

For JoAnn Who in conversation inspired this little ditty. This is the Ballad of ‘Memo’ Roy the fastest memos in the world. Roy writes a memo every minute just to remind himself what to do. He even writes one to tell himself he must visit the loo. It all started many years ago when the doctor told Roy he was suffering from short-term memory loss. Now he writes memos to remind himself to write a memo for everything he must do. He writes one late at night to remind him to get up in the morning and one in the morning to remind him to go to bed at night. It is estimated he writes quite a few hundred memos everyday. His house is filed with little bits of yellow paper stuck up here and there. He couldn’t watch TV even if he wanted to. There are s many memos on it you can’t see the screen. One day his pen ran out and no memos he could write. He couldn’t even write a memo to remind himself to buy a pen. Then he found a pencil and shouted that will do. Now he is able to write memos to himself to tell himself what to do. As far as I know, he hasn’t written a memo to remind himself to sharpen the pencil once and a while. 28 February 2008