Serpent Poem found in Kingston

Here is an e-mail I recently received.

Dear Ossie,

I was sorting through some books the other day as I was getting ready to return to university, when I came across a book of poetry my now ex-boyfriend had gotten for me as a Christmas present last year. He told me he'd picked it up in a secound hand bookstore in Owen Sound.

I was flipping through the book absently when I found something written in the margin. There, beside Alfred

Lord Tennyson's poem "Morte d'Arthur", was this poem:

Scarier than anything

You've ever seen

Is the Owen Sound Serpent

All scaly and green

With teeth like pick axes

And fins down its back

You don't stand a prayer

If that monster attacks

I'd heard of Kingstie before but I had to google you. When I found your website I thought I'd share the poem with you. Maybe this poem is well known in Owen Sound, or maybe whoever wrote it in the margin was making it up, but either way I thought it was interesting.

Yours Truly,

Bobbi in Kingston

I have heard this poem before, but not for a long time. I certainly wouldn't say it's commonly known in Owen Sound. Thanks for sending it to me, Bobbi!