Thirty-One
Thirty-one packs of chewing gum,
Clutter up my drawer,
And thirty-one times thereafter,
I forgot thirty-one times more,
And bought thirty-one times yet again
Seems somehow I found
Thirty-one more times,
I had thirty-one more such a yen...
This went on for thirty-one more months,
Till thirty-one drawers were jammed
Tried to open them thirty-one times apiece,
And thirty-one times closed they slammed
Not only thirty-one drawers overpacked,
But thirty one over heated summer days,
Made thirty-one globs,
Of thirty-one pounds of sticky glaze
With thirty one times prying
With thirty-one different sized crow bars...
Thirty-one hours of trying....
Could have far easier
Gone thirty one times to Mars....
But now thirty-one stringly spidery strands
Of thirty one thousand gummy stringy drawer glands
My kitchen is inaccessible
I've tried thirty one hundred times
With thirty-one ever increasing sized
Machetes, and thirty one ever
More dificult rhymes
So I sent away for thirty one extra large
Gummy-Bears,
Thinking for sure thirty-one ways they knew,
How to fight their way with thirty one set of claws,
And make way for me or you
But what I found out after thirty-one deliveries
Of thirty-one huge Gummy Bears,
Each Thirty-one dollars and
Thirty-one sets of change
And thirty-one shipping and handling
Charges, and this was really strange
My thirty -one huge Gummy Bears
Each melted in the kitchen too
Making thirty one more tons of
Thirty-one sticky gobs of goo
So I sealed off my kitchen
with thirty-one tons of bricks,
In honor of Mr. Poe,
And just to get my kicks,
I placed a Cask of Amontillado
It's seepage made me lick my lips...
Now I Barbeque on the patio,
In the heat, or in the snow...
Scrambled eggs a bit tricky,
But better than that sticky
Thirty-one varieties
Of thirty one tons
Of sticky goo
Gettin' all over my thirty-one
Inch "buns".
Copyright © Tom Bell | Year Posted 2008
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