Can anyone explain these two poems by A.A. Milne?

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Hello there... can you make sense of these two poems by A.A. Milne: "Jonathan Jo" and "Politeness"? They look like nursery rhymes, but I'm sure there's a lot more to them.
Thanks!
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Jonathan Jo

Jonathan Jo
Has a mouth like an "O"
And a wheelbarrow full of surprises;
If you ask for a bat,
Or for something like that,
He has got it, whatever the size is.

If you're wanting a ball,
It's no trouble at all;
Why, the more that you ask for, the merrier -
Like a hoop and a top,
And a watch that won't stop,
And some sweets, and an Aberdeen terrier.

Jonathan Jo
Has a mouth like an "O,"
But this is what makes him so funny:
If you give him a smile,
Only once in a while,
Then he never expects any money!
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Politeness

If people ask me,
I always tell them:
"Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say."
If people ask me,
I always answer,
"Quite well, thank you, how are you to-day?"
I always answer,
I always tell them,
If they ask me
Politely.....
BUT SOMETIMES

I wish

That they wouldn't.
 
"Politeness" is, of course, about the subversive fifth column in British society, dedicated to the overthrow of the government. Mr Milne, and now his son Christopher Robin, are well known advocates of Revolution. This poem is an incitement, in that stiff-lipped British style, to overthrow societal norms, leading to eventual havoc, and public rudeness.

"Jonathan O", on the other hand, is a more directly Communist manifesto. From each as they are able, to each as they need, all paid for by simple acquiescence.
 
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