Entries from May 2008 ↓

I saw a shooting star last night
It shot across the sky
No way to tell how big it was
‘Cause it was very high.
A shooting star is always fun
To be the first to spot it,
But if it is a star that’s shot
I wonder just who shot it.
And if it is the star that shoots
I hope that it [...]

She was stopped for speeding
And she knew she’d get a ticket.
But if she played her cards just right,
She might be able to lick it.
When he asked her for her license,
She told him, “This will make your day.
I don’t have a driver’s license,
The stupid judge took it away!”
“And I have no registration,
Because this is a stolen [...]

She came into my small office,
Her fifteen boys and girls in tow.
How she remembered all their names
Was one thing that I had to know.
All she said was, “Sit down, Leroy,”
When they had filed in through the door.
All of them had quickly minded,
Filling the chairs and half the floor.
I said, “It must be very hard
To remember [...]

“If you were a flower,”
My teacher asked me,
“What kind of flower
Would you want to be?”
“A rose,” I told teacher,
“A rose would be fun.
Since roses have thorns,
I could stick everyone!”

They told the marriage counselor
All of their irks and all their woes woes.
How they’d stayed this long together
I don’t think anybody knows.
Then the counselor grabbed the wife
He held her tight and then he kissed her;
A very long and passionate kiss,
Not the kind he’d give his sister!
Then he told the startled husband
“I’ve demonstrated what wives seek,
Your [...]