Finnish her!

I'm on a Finnish language mailing list these days which has proven to be helpful in finding some rather hard to find resources for learning the language. It's a low traffic list and I had to chuckle at the following poem submitted to the list this morning since I, no doubt, will be in the same boat very soon :)

FINNISH LESSON

The nouns, like ladies of the night,
Modify rear ends to signify
Approach or departure or the height
Above, or on, where they lie
To do their work. The verbs decline
With even regularity, although
With very little sign
"P"s transform to "v"s, or go
Somewhere else. They disappear.
While "k"s and "t"s in other ways
Dull down to "d"s or, it's clear,
Like spectres moving into days,
Are gone in toto from perception.
"We" is "me" and "they" is "he"
And woe is me in this direction.
I'm grateful that it seems to be
That Finns can easily distinguish
That speech with me is best in English.