/// In An Officer and a Girl Smiling,
the vain soldier finds laughter beguiling.
The real reason she snickers,
(nearly wetting her knickers),
is his ludicrous huge headgear styling.
/// He explained, as the helpless girl grinned,
how his hat is secured from the wind.
To his tresses it’s pinned,
but he added, chagrined,
it got harder the more his hair thinned.
/// While the two of them sat there to chat,
she thought, “He’s going bald under that?”
He has secrets he’s hiding.
They’re retained by deciding
to keep everything under his hat.
/// She attempts to stop laughing at him,
by recalling past thoughts sad or grim.
But she cannot stop staring
at the large lid he’s wearing,
where two bugs run a race round the brim.
/// Now, the headgear she wears is more simple;
a cloth, tied at her chin, called a “wimple.”
It’s a modest affair
which will cover her hair,
but will frame (when she’s smiling) each dimple.
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here (archived if necessary), here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page has more).
/// In An Officer and a Girl Smiling,
the vain soldier finds laughter beguiling.
The real reason she snickers,
(nearly wetting her knickers),
is his ludicrous huge headgear styling.
/// He explained, as the helpless girl grinned,
how his hat is secured from the wind.
To his tresses it’s pinned,
but he added, chagrined,
it got harder the more his hair thinned.
/// While the two of them sat there to chat,
she thought, “He’s going bald under that?”
He has secrets he’s hiding.
They’re retained by deciding
to keep everything under his hat.
/// She attempts to stop laughing at him,
by recalling past thoughts sad or grim.
But she cannot stop staring
at the large lid he’s wearing,
where two bugs run a race round the brim.
/// Now, the headgear she wears is more simple;
a cloth, tied at her chin, called a “wimple.”
It’s a modest affair
which will cover her hair,
but will frame (when she’s smiling) each dimple.