Entries from September 2025 ↓

My mother can tell my future with cards And no one I tell really believes it. One look at my report card and she tells me What Daddy will do when he sees it.

Mother always laughed and told me, “Get your elbows off the table.” She thought that it was kinda funny ‘Cause she made it rhyme with Mabel Would she have thought it as funny If my name had been Eloise? Because then she’d have to tell me Somewhere I shouldn’t put my knees!

The judge faced the two opposing lawyers, “I got a bribe from you, Mr. Brown; A check for fifteen thousand dollars,” The judge said, with a frown. “Then I got another bribe,” the judge said, “A check for ten thousand from Mr. Green. According to Mr. Brown’s bribe, I would have to consider it a […]

Have you ever read a story About the famous Captain Hook? Yesterday I read about him In a Peter Pan comic book. But not a single word was said Of how the captain got his hook; Of just how he had lost his hand, Whether to crocodile or crook. Don’t you wonder what his name […]

Just a slip of a girl From a very small town Where the gossip was quick To drag anyone down A girl that was single Was having a baby It was surely a sin, No if, and, or maybe No way to explain An illegitimate child And the rumors were swift They’d begun to run […]