A Jackass Caught In a Hailstorm
A Jackass Caught in a Hailstorm
By Elton Camp
Most who offend me, I can hold back
So, from them I don’t take much slack
It’s usually enough if I just coldly say,
“How do you dare talk to me this way.”
My position often carried some power
So that those around me in fear cower
I had influence on who was to be hired
Likewise as to those who should be fired
But there is another place where I do stay
That it never seems to work quite that way
And it is when I am in my very own house
There, whatever , I’ll be quiet as a mouse
When my wife and daughter begin to revile
I’ve learned it’s best to say nothing and smile
It very plainly doesn’t matter what I may say
Those two are going to have things their way
When a hailstorm the jackass has caught
To protect himself, the jack can do naught
He can only bray, as control he tries to fake
But he is better off, silently the hits to take
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