Category: Poems for Grownups

In searching for the mind of God I climbed the highest steeple. But God said, “You won’t find me there. Go dwell among my people.”

The kind of gift that someone gives you Is an expressive kind of flattery. Yesterday somebody sent me A battery operated battery. Unwrapping it, I found as usual, Immediate use had been precluded. In small print on the box it said “Batteries are not included”!

Yesterday, at half past two, I ran right out of things to do. Although you think of it a crime, I sat me down to force some rhyme. When Ogden did it, I am told, All his poems were quickly sold. But you told me in terms so certain, My attempts are truly hurtin’. You […]

He was the average corporate lawyer But Henry had always had one flaw. It was the love for things material And that is why Henry practiced law. He bought himself a brand new Jaguar, A car that cost him a lot of bread. He’d gotten the Jaguar just for show, So he had picked fire […]

He bragged to his drinking buddies How he always controlled his wife. How he had been the one in charge Throughout their entire married life. He said, “She came to me on hands and knees, After our argument last night. To see your wife crawling towards you Is not a very pretty sight!” “What did […]