A verse of unit puns The Units Verse by Kevin Ahern Two thousand pounds of Chinese soup Will make a restaurant run In Beijing, China order it In units of Won ton Religious leaders measure clout From Nome to Amsterdam By how much clout they have with God The units - billi-grams Is the ratio of circumference To diameter my, my Of homes in northern latitudes Known as Eskimo pi? Four fifty three graham crackers is An awful lot to bake Into dessert when prepping up A really good pound cake The units used for cleaning breath Are very small, so cope One millionth of a mouthwash is A single microScope I bet you didn't know the floor Was there until it beckoned You hit a peel and then went down In one bananosecond And when your mother's mother goes To phone you from her van Speed dialing is the way she calls That is one instragram A nickel isn't worth too much In these inflated times Put four of them together, though To make a paradigms Geometrically I'll bet that you Must get it all the time But did you know the distance twixt Two jokes is one straight line? I hate it when my socks get wet It's not what I'd have chosen A thousand milliliters of Them make one literhosen For mockingbirds two thousand is A lot, please hear my words But that's what you will need to have Two kilomockingbirds And if you shuffle playing cards Remember fifty two Is what you have when someone hands One decacard to you A tiny trout, I just found out Won't make a tasty dish Cuz one millionth of one of those Is just a microfiche And if you're into monogramming Listen to me, ma'am A pair of them together gives One single diagram If you should lose your voice it might Just leave you feeling sour But think of it in better terms You've now got more hoarse power