Caren Krutsinger Poet Light Verse

I Do Not Believe You Cousin Dear

There’s a coffee tree in your backyard?  In Kansas?
In the back of your house, the marsh?
A Brazilian coffee tree cannot survive here.
Your dhram winters are way too harsh!

Well, sure, I will come and take a peek.
Right this second? Let me get my coat.
That stick you planted next to the leek?
You must think I am a dope float!

I think you sprinkled those beautiful coffee beans yourself.
They did not fall off that stick which a tree is truly not.
I do not believe you, my crazy little Cousin Dear.
Because frankly, you have always been a bit of a snot.

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Rhona Mcferran November 21, 2018 at 12:47 PM Hahahhaha! ;D I see you had cousins like that, too... Rhona Mcferran November 21, 2018 at 6:52 PM I can't stop laughing.... ;D Caren Krutsinger November 21, 2018 at 2:23 PM My snotty cousin can out-snot your snotty-cousin any day. Want to race them?

M. L. Kiser November 21, 2018 at 7:26 AM Good one. My late Dad planted just about everything, including many things that are not indigenous to our area. Palm trees, yucca plants, money plants, maternity plants; you name it. The one thing he didn't try to grow was banana trees but, our neighbors have grown them successfully. Caren Krutsinger November 21, 2018 at 10:15 AM Wow! Banana plants! I tried a peach tree once. Nothing happened, except the forest came closer and swallowed it up, so maybe something happened, but it is so intimidated and dwarfed, we cannot FIND it.