Category: Poetry

The hospital’s full of alphabets; The ER and the OR, just to name a few. But the ward I think most aptly named Just has to be the ICU!

The store clerk saw the stranger, And the sad look on his face, As he watched Christmas shoppers Rush around from place to place. The next time that he saw him, He was by the manger scene. Some people had thrown trash there And it wasn’t kept too clean. Then he watched him make his […]

They all made fun of my old hound, He wasn’t the smartest dog around. He couldn’t fetch and he couldn’t sit, But I was as proud of him as spit. He never would chase a truck or a car; He just didn’t care to run all that far. Exertion, to him, was never a habit; […]

I sent my dog to dog school Because he wouldn’t obey. I wanted them to teach him How dogs are supposed to play. They said that he’s doing well, That he’s top dog in his class. He hasn’t learned to obey But he gets straight A’s in Sass. He came home last night and said […]

Of all my students, he stood out, ‘Cause he was kind of weird. He had orange hair and holey clothes And a thin and straggly beard. That kind of kid, when I was young, We used to call a hippie. His talk was strange his ways were brash, You might say he was lippy. Well, […]