Category: Poems for Grownups

She came into my office With a gang of kids in tow. Why people had so many kids Was more than I could know. She explained she had twelve kids Because she couldn’t hear. So I said I’d see her right away Because I thought that queer. She certainly had a hearing problem, She was […]

An old man saw a small boy Looking at a poor dead cat. It had just been run over And now it was very flat. He felt sorry for the boy, A lad of six or seven, He said, “Just remember son, Your cat’s with God in Heaven.” The Boy said sarcastically, “Gramps, don’t try […]

Old Harry Spatts Has sixty cats, He keeps them in his barn. He keeps them there To eat the rats That come to eat his corn. Each has a bowl And each a hole So they can come and go. But why each cat Has its own hole, I said I’d like to know. Well […]

“Mommy, look, another gray hair Just why do you have so many?” “Each time you are bad I get one. When you’re good, I don t get any.” Suzy looked at Grandma’s picture Then with voice a little sad. “Mommy, when you were still little Were you really all that bad?”

A stupid goat ate my homework. I know that she won’t believe it. Once the goat got started eating There’s no way I could retrieve it. I think all teachers are alike, They don’t want to believe the truth. Russian spies really stole my books Out of the drugstore pay-phone booth. When space aliens took […]