Entries from May 2025 ↓

The warden’s daughter got married To someone down on cell block two. She was never very pretty Her choice of suitors had been few. He’s not the kind of son-in-law For which the warden would have hoped, But still he didn’t get upset, Until he found out they’d eloped.

Oh dirty nasty little fly, Where had your footsteps taken you Before you walked across my plate And stuck your snout into my stew? I saw you and your friends out strolling Across a fresh cow paddy And then I saw you eating slop When I fed the pigs with Daddy. I want to know […]

We were out in our back yard Roasting marshmallows on sticks, Around an outdoor fire pit, That our dad had made of bricks. That’s when we heard the siren And saw flames just down the street. Like moths drawn to a street light, We rushed there on flying feet. The owners, standing, watching The fire […]

Have you ever heard the tale Of how the slug was once a snail? He envied all the shells he saw But with his own he saw each flaw. One day a hermit crab came by, He had a shell that pleased Snail’s eye. Now hermit crabs are quick to trade And with the snail […]

Saturday night I lost my head When I had a terrible fight. I would have won the silly brawl But I completely lost my sight. I couldn’t hear just where he was And so he beat me black and blue. My ears were on my head, of course, It seems that I had lost them […]