The Love Story Of Joseph Big

The Love Story of Joseph Big

By: Deming Harriman

Joseph Big is well, quite big

And he’s in love with Alice Twig

But Alice Twig is very thin

And her love he’ll never win

For who could love someone like he

Who is three times the size of she

So Joseph though, “What will I do?”

And then it clicked and Joseph knew

If he dropped a pound or four

She’d come running to his door

So he though “Okay I’ll run”

But he gets tired in the sun

“Maybe if I just look the part

The I’ll win Alice’s heart”

Joseph heard that stripes were slimming

But he found they weren’t so trimming

He tried poka dots and checkers too

But he found nothing would do

Sad and beat Joseph did cry

Until he heard someone asking “why?”

And who was it but no one else

Than Alice Twig her very self

He cried, “I love you Alice but I’m to fat!

You’ll never love me if I’m like that!”

She smiled and said “Joseph I’ve loved you all along

The way you look, that’s nothing wrong!”

And with that the lovers did wed

And now across the town it’s said

The Joseph Big and Alice Twig

Are the happiest couple that ever lived