Entries from January 2007 ↓

I haven’t got the presents wrapped,
The first guests have appeared.
My kids are both hysterical,
They’ve just found Santa’s beard.
Bill’s rearranging mistletoe
From where it was before,
In hopes that he will get to kiss
The widow from next door.
They just returned my Christmas cards.
In spite of getting writer’s cramps.
I got the cards all mailed on time,
I just forgot the [...]

My granddaughter called me last night
To wish me a happy birthday.
A call from my young granddaughter
Pleases me more than I can say.
She asked me just how old I was;
I told her I turned sixty five.
She said that’s a real big number;
“Are you the oldest man alive?”
I told her that was not so old,
After all is [...]

She received the note quite early;
It had come in the morning mail.
She had been living on welfare
And her health had become quite frail.
What the note said gave her new life.
“This evening I’ll be passing through
And if it’s not too much trouble
I would like to visit with you.”
She quickly went [...]