Category: Poetry

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Mail Order Woman

The catalogue came last week And there on page seventeen Was the prettiest little woman That Buford had ever seen. At forty seven ninety nine The woman really did look nice And with the shipping throwed in free You really couldn’t beat the price. He sent his order right away. And told Hank, his friend, […]

A Monster for Sis

A monster came into my room. He sure gave me the creepy creeps! But I got rid of him real fast, I told him where my sister sleeps.

First is Not Always Best

We raced out to the old tire swing, It had hung there through the summer. For him to beat me for first swing, Had really been a bummer. But when he jumped into the swing, I laughed so hard I could have cried. A swarm of wasps had found the tire And built their paper […]

The Thing

It’s an ugly little creature, My sister thinks that it’s a gnome. It sticks to things around the house Like bits of paper to a comb. I put it in a great big box And shipped it off to Uruguay. But it was back and stuck on me, Before the middle of the day. I […]

Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite

My mother said, as I crawled into bed, “Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” I haven’t a clue of what I can do But I’ll put up one heck of a fight! Are bedbugs as big as a guinea pig? Would they rather bite girls, or boys? Do they wait in the dark with a knife […]