Appleton boys
Are getting ready
For gin
They remove their shirt
From their chest
Now they put a
T-shirt on their chest
Now they remove their jeans
Finally it is time for them
To remove their underwear from
Their cocks
Now they will put
Their jock strap in their
Cocks
Then they put their underwear
On top of their jock strap
Now they will put on their shorts
Now they will change their socks
From their feet
It is now finally the time to put their
Running shoes
On their feet
Now they started to jog
3 miles
It is very hard to do
Our hearts are beating fast
And we can feel it
Crabby Appleton Got His
Way Again!
There Was Nothing
I Could Do Without
My Thinking Cap.
-Gray Squirrel
05-24-2025
The instant I used the word ‘stranger’ the kindergarteners gasped.
Their eyes got wide. Their mouths dropped open. One screamed.
Two began to cry.
So I told them that they used to all be strangers.
A stranger is just someone you do not know.
Strangers are not bad.
Miss Appleton used to be a stranger.
They give her teary faces. One jumps up and tries to run out.
“A stranger is BAD,” one particular bossy one informs me.
Stranger used to be an acceptable word.
Now it apparently only describes monsters?
We only use it in one context apparently.
Sadly.
Just another word they will use incorrectly
All of their lives….
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