Entries from December 2004 ↓

“What caused your wreck?” the doctor asked
While he was setting another bone.
“Peanuts,” the bus driver told him,
In a dejected kind of tone.
“Peanuts?” the doctor asked the man,
“Just how did peanuts cause your wreck?
I guess you know how close you came
To dying with a broken neck?”
“They kept feeding me peanuts,
Two sick old ladies on my bus.
I [...]

My teacher taught me how to write But didn’t teach me how to read. I made a note of things to get But now I can’t read what I need.
If I could read the things I wrote Then I would know the things I knew. I might not like the things I [...]

“One of the ten commandments says Honor your father and mother. Is there a commandment that tells How to treat sister and brother?”
When she asked her Sunday School class, The first to raise his hand was Will. Looking at his sister, he said, “The one that says, ‘Thou shall not kill!’ ”

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All the doctors carried signs But no one seemed to heed them, Except for the pharmacists. Seems no one else could read them.

She had survived a heart attack And she was really feeling low. She prayed to God, “Don’t let me die, I’ve lots to do before I go.”
God said He had heard her prayer And that He understood her fears. She had been a faithful worker So God promised her twelve more years.
Twelve [...]