Hey Thanasis, hey Thanasis
with your leaky head
No, you, you silly coconut
I mean you, wrestler
Come on, way up high
high in Andromeda
I’ll kick away your ladder
now try coming down
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Mocking. You and poetic metre have had a falling-out, but there’s no accounting for taste…
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If you’ll allow me to riff a little, Evodie 
Oh Thanasis, oh Thanasis
my head’s a basket case
never have I found such a mug
to soothe the blazing heat
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I’ve gone to Andromeda
take my ladder and climb up
and, like another Wittgenstein,
tell me “klein and mein!”
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Well, you didn’t merely alter it, Anthime! You changed its whole emphasis!
Of course, the rhyme is lovely, and since the original author likes it, we have two delightful satirical pieces!
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It should be clarified that “Thanasis” means Papakonstantinou, that the ladder is kicked so it can be ruled out in Andromeda, and that the horror is that wherever you stop and wherever you go in summer, they play him incessantly, until you’re sick of hearing him.
I think that “kafasi” in the expression “my kafasi will come off” means “head”, from a Turkish word that probably has nothing to do with the kafasi meaning crate or frame.
So the rhyme could be improved: Hey Thanasi, hey Thanasi / with that leaky kafasi, at the small cost of making it a little harder to understand.
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