Category: Poetry

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Turkeylamb

Our pretty hen turkey named Sam Fell in love with our neighbor’s old ram Their offspring suspicious Were really delicious For Thanksgiving we had turkeylamb.

Graveyard Traditions

Carrying flowers to the cemetery He passed a Chinaman with a bowl of rice. He said. “I see you’re taking food to the dead? I’m sure your dead friend must really think that’s nice” That’s one Chinese tradition I think is weird, There’s simply nothing we do that can beat it. Just when do you […]

Fishermen’s Lies

The mailman said he caught a catfish That weighed a hundred and eighty pounds. He bragged about his monster catfish To everyone as he made his rounds. Old Jake told him he caught a catfish That was at least twenty times that big. It had swallowed a fisherman’s boat, His lantern and all his fishing […]

Semantics

The policeman told the lawyer “That’s a stop sign, you failed to stop.” “But I slowed down, that’s just as good”, He sarcastically told the cop. The policeman took his nightstick And beat the lawyer good and sound. He asked the lawyer as he beat him, “Should I stop, or just slow down?”

Fiancée

My family is really a mess, I’ll be the first one to confess. The fiancée I had Got married to Dad And now she’s my mom, more or less!