My daddy was a famous man, He was famous for his snores. Companies came to test how well They made their soundproof doors. His snores have caused earthquakes to start And caused tectonic plates to drift. And we were sure my Daddy’s snores Had caused the continents to shift. The night he died he snored [...]
Entries from November 2000 ↓
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Helluva Snore
November 1st, 2000 — General Humor
Entomologist
November 1st, 2000 — Poems for Children
I collect all kinds of insects, It’s something that I like to do. I stick them to a piece of cardboard With pins and little dabs of glue. I know an arachnid’s not an insect But I have a special spider. It’s the one that scared Miss Muffet When it came and sat beside her. [...]
Little Boy Blue
November 1st, 2000 — Mangled Nursery Rhymes
Why do you suppose Little Boy Blue turned blue When the cows got into the corn? Do you think, maybe, It had something to do With the way that he blew his horn?
Vocabulary
November 1st, 2000 — Golf Humor
My daddy is a golfer, He let me watch him play. I can’t wait to tell my mommy The new words I learned today.
Snow Flake
November 1st, 2000 — Poems for Children
A little snowflake floating down, As it gets closer I can see A piece of nature’s finest art A lovely, lacy, filigree. No two alike, the poets claim, Songs of its beauty have been sung. But this one’s life has been cut short; I caught it on my warm moist tongue.
Wayne Edwards is a native Texan, graduate of Texas A&M University, and retired Air Force officer. He lives, with his wife Ruth, on a fish farm in Texas, in an underground house he built himself. Wayne can be reached via e-mail at 