Simpering silly psycho Sally
Sashayed sassily down Seattle alley
Slimy slithering slugs scurried past
Silly Sally scanned scuttling insect sass
Hillbilly Charlotte was a woman mean
Dressed like the homeless, was never clean
Smelled worse than a shaggy smelly skunk
Pungent as ground beef left in a trunk
Move over Charlotte, get out of the way
You’re not going to ruin my day-to-day
I refuse to stand downhill to you
You smell like a puppy’s worst doodoo
Hillbilly Charlotte clean up your act
Shampoo your hair and try to stay on track
Wash your body with something smelly sweet
For the neighborhood this would be a treat
Move up Charlotte, do the right thing
Make yourself lovely, give us a zing
Do your best, impress us all now
Be a role model, become a wow
Hillbilly Charlotte clean up your act
Shampoo your hair and try to stay on track
Wash your body with something smelly sweet
For the neighborhood this would be a treat
Charlotte, if you do the right thing
You will make us happy, from peon to king
Maybe even make a new friend or two
Just do what people are meant to do
Hillbilly Charlotte clean up your act
Shampoo your hair and try to stay on track
Wash your body with something smelly sweet
For the neighborhood this would be a treat
Alabaster used for statues and vases
Brass and beryl
Calcite, relative of limestone and marble
Diamond, pure carbon
Erbium used for fiber optics
Fluorite boosts mental clarity
Gypsum and graphite
Hematite polished into beads
Iron used to make steel
Jadeite graded A B or C
Kunzite soft pink, lilac or violet
Limestone formed from shells and corals
Moonstone heightens psychic sensitivity
Nacre also mother-of-pearl
Opal plays with rainbow colors
Peridot August’s birthstone
Quartz used in electronics
Ruby red
Sapphire a deep Kashmir blue
Topaz November’s birthstone
Unakite green and pink granite
Vesuvianite discovered in Italy
Wavelite a rare aluminum mineral
Xanthite named by ancient Greeks
Yowah nut from Australia
Zircon of many colors
Edelweiss, say you'll stay through the autumn.
When seasons change, Will you get bored of me?
I picked you and I pray you'll last,
No matter how seasons seem to be harsh.
My dirty secrets, the ones my mom knows nothing of,
I've told them all to you.
Edelweiss, You're not replaceable.
You're the closest ever.
You're the softest thing that never left.
Edelweiss, say you'll stay past my winter too,
When all my other flowers have forgotten me.
I don't know how to keep things alive, but I'm trying for you
So stay, and let me learn how to be.
Dapper smoking lion has a cough that shakes the room
The nicotine wafting out of his pores gives a little zoom
His hoarse cough is enough to scare a vampire bat way
I cannot be here much longer, I cannot bear to stay
Mogogi wa mogodu —
The guide has led us to ntwa ya tsogo.
Moferefere ya sesole!
Popomfsa… go kwa khutso?
No.
Kgotso is here.
Boemo bjo bo sa suthego:
It will not move.
It cannot break.
Thlokego ya merusu —
That is the goal.
Poloko ya ntwa must be the end.
I am the Space that stretches beyond,
I am the Distance where echoes are gone.
I am measured by light as it drifts through the night,
I am the Infinite, hidden from sight.
A baby calf dances elegantly, forgetting gallop, highly intentional, jumping, kicking, light movement, nurtured obey parents,quick rider, small try, unique valour, wondering xanthic, young zeal.
Tireless is time, we know.
Transient is each second.
Today, yesterday’s child,
Travels twice round the clock.
Transition, it likes most.
Timepieces stop for none.
Ticktocking they move on.
Dancing upon cotton candy,
You dream your sweet dreams,
Believing the world is all sugar and streams.
You, a first kiss on a cotton candy cloud,
Believing the world was yours, unbowed.
Beneath the moonlight,
Your solitary form shines bright.
The giant gray marine squamate, the mosasaur
Called lizard of the Meuse River, forevermore
Some think you are extinct, but I know differently
I met you Wednesday in the Magellan Sea
Bull frog trained his lily pad like a magic flying carpet ride
It took him in and out the trees, giving berth very wide
Sometimes he rode it to outer space to see Jupiter and Mars
They also landed once a week on an asteroid near the stars
Marie shares her banana daily with Orie, an orangutan
He liked no other human, only her, no other child or man
They sit and converse silently, sharing their food with each other
She sometimes wonders if Orie thinks she might be his mother
Yes
I know
It is
As you told me so
I see your soul
It flits like ghosts
Your head talks
A dark cold host
Do what you say
I give you all
Take it from me
Do not fall
Walk to light
Its there you see
Come, walk fast
Walk to me
Be free
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty went to the doctor as he did not feel well; he needed help to come out of his shell
so off to the doctors, Humpty ambled. He was confused because his brain was so scrambled.
The doctor looked at Humpty and said, “This is no joke. You seem to lost nearly all of your yolk.”
Humpty said to the doctor, “I had a great fall while I was sitting on the garden wall.”
After my fall I did not feel well. I found I had a crack in the back of my shell
then Poor Humpty took a turn for the worse and poor Humpty is now dead
So the doctor had him for breakfast between two slices of bread
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