Dear Eli,
Your poem is magnificent,
You’re a chip off the old block.
Please believe me when I say,
I was’t trying to mock.
Your father is wonderful,
and his poems a delight.
No offense was meant,
when I sat down to write.
I never even saw,
the original ditty.
So please forgive me,
for trying to be witty.
So please send your father
my sincerest apology,
because insulting another,
is not in our theology.