Umbrellas put rain on the run ~
Best insurance policy under the sun
The flight is full, so there’s no room
For everybody’s bags.
We need 3 dozen volunteers -
Come up; we’ve got the tags.
The first-class passengers are set,
As well as Comfort Plus,
But those in Groups 6,7,8 -
You’re screwed - and that means us!
We didn’t buy the cheapest seats,
Yet still, we’re in a fix
Because our boarding pass revealed
That we are in Group 6.
We now need 20 people
To check baggage and what’s more,
By doing so, we’ll move you up
And you will join Group 4!
We waited with our bags until
A few of us remained
And yes, we stowed our bags up top,
Despite what they’d maintained.
And by the way, 2 empty seats
Are there across the aisle,
A challenge to the agents
Who might still be in denial.
He bought a steel building
Someone told him to use
Ancient technology to create
A pro founded dwelling
He bought. the building
he decided a rammed earth center
wall would complete the design
Where the garage door is a cobbled
Wall would installate us that in most
Wintered seasons we are due the
Coldness that winter owed
He drilled holes
And installed rebar
And use cobb to create thick walls
Interioral to buffer the coldest season
The Ancients, the Ancients he
Taught and preached to benifet the
Extremes of the seasons
Both ancient and modern
Cause it ain't she-it and my darn
There is chill to ward-way
To winters cold to spay
Might we benifet for natures negagence
And the thermal mass to ease
and not make task
Oh the Ancients he spoke
to be taken serious and be a joke
that man and family should prosper
And benifet not to chore ah-rah-la-ah
The Ancients both modern and sound
Techs broad and ah bound
Cheapest to material these mortals sound
Oh the Ancients!
The space race, now racing with rockets
Though cheapest, wore the deepest pockets
I hope that they're hiring
Soon after a firing
Need a job at Spacely Space Sprockets
Inflation keeps on rising it never seems to stop
food prices going up in the cheapest shops.
Winter fuel payment stopped for the weak and frail
people who speak out and protest being sent to jail.
Veteran's are sleeping on the streets in the freezing cold
vagrants have no age they are the young and old.
No room in hotel's or hostel's and houses in short supply
can not rent a private house the rents are to high
Doctors over worked nurses in short supply
no beds on hospital wards left in corridors where eventually you might die
YOU seem to be hell bent of bringing this country to its knees
JUST STOP LOOK INTO YOUR CONSCIENCE AND DO SOMTHING PLEASE....
It’s all been decided for me
I was told to get up and go
To reap the harvests for free
Which I had no idea to sow
In a competition of fictions
The most plausible won
I bargained three new convictions
For the price of the cheapest one
I invested them in three essays
Which I was relieved to forget
I walked through the Roman arcades
I rested on faraway sand
I drank from the springs of wisdom
And ate from the plates of good
Almost lost my immune system
Survived though wasn’t too shrewd
I bet this plot is predetermined
It’s all been decided, you see
I gave my word to return it
But still I keep it with me.
I’m not a mad man
I do the cheapest deal I can
But of appreciable quality though
Coz I gotta save that dough
I’m not a mad man
I am rolling out my plan
And the only thing you’ll be dealt
Is to tighten your belt
I’m not a mad man
My creed is dearer than clan
Even though my kin feel the heat
I promise you that soon it’s gonna be lit
I’m not a mad man
Come rain or come sun
I have no latitude to retreat
And all dance shall be to my beat
I’m not a mad man
I want it all and now to be done
What was supposed to take years
Whether or not pain and tears
I’m not a mad man
I am the chosen one
To make the hard decisions
However precarious it be my position
I’m not a mad man
Be a hater or be a fan
Be it the throng of friends or adversaries
The coming success will call for anniversaries
K. Muitherero
bunny wanted to host Thanksgiving and we said yes
Not realizing the tastiest food would be watercress.
Carrot soup, cabbage jelly and the lack of starch or bread
Meant we went home ready for turkey, feeling unfed.
Next time, I will host it said Slobin, the Robin.
Not him! Chickadee whispered while my head was bobb’n.
He always gets the cheapest birdseed ever found.
The squirrel couple stopped in their tracks and turned around.
Well it could be us, Mrs. Squirrel offered, if nuts do please.
The mice shuddered, for nuts were not as great as cheese.
We finally agreed to start bringing our own potluck food.
And at the next Thanksgiving we were in a better mood.
Generals measure the cost of war in human lives
Soldiers toast its value in the cheapest of dives ...
Their stomachs in knots all night and day
Mothers find war's price too steep to pay
I don’t know why I’m with her still
She’s a craving I just can’t kill,
She’s a habit I just can’t kick,
I’m an addict – she makes me sick
She burns like “China White” cut wrong,
Harsh as schwag from an unwashed bong.
As bitter as the cheapest beer,
As gentle as pure Everclear.
Her voice rings in my shroom-filled head
She is the meth comedown I dread.
She’s Oxy, fentanyl and crack,
The monkey stapled to my back.
The dragon I chased; she chases me –
The best thing I could do is flee.
But where could I in my hell go
That she, my drug, would not follow?
Eating a bowl of Post Shredded Wheat
Is like eating big clumps of dead grass
Now I know why horsies simply can't wait
For the time between meals to pass
We feed 'em this stuff to reward these guys
Has anyone asked them their thoughts?
Might be surprised at the answer you'd get
“We'd rather be eating smelly socks”
Someone once said many decades ago
It will give your kiddies strong bones
So we feed 'em horrible clumps of dead grass
It's why they can't wait to leave home
Don't be fooled by this marketing ploy
It's the cheapest damn stuff they can find
It grows in the field almost everywhere you look
They must think we don't have a mind
Post Shredded Wheat, what horrible stuff
It's not fit for human consumption
Please sign my petition to ban it forever
Surely has no value that's my assumption!
Cheque please
If you will
Garcon
I have waited longer enough
And if my blind date
Bye some miracle
Does at some point
Eventually finally arrive
And asks did I
Leave you a message
In order to pass on
And give to him
Please won't you tell him this
Time waits
For No Man
Especially 1
Who can't be bothered
To arrive on time
Unless he himself
Is Blind
Doesn't own or watch
Or can tell time
Actually come to think of it
If bye any chance he is in any way good looking
With a sexy body and is a bit of a catch
Nudge, nudge
Wink , wink
Know what I mean
Apologize on my behalf
For leaving as I had a family emergency
And promise I will call him
To reschedule A.S.A.P
And I promise and guarantee you
You will be in for and I will give you
The best tip of your entire life
So much so you may be able to even
Take the rest of the week off
Or afford the cheapest thing
On the menu here or glass of water
Nudge nudge
Know what I mean
Wink wink
School never taught me this:
As a mite upon the side of an angel,
Dawn in a place covered by
my hands across my face,
four pillars of goo goo muck,
and a cellophane chick riding
a llama with pink bow ties,
chasing a hurricane of black birds,
squeezing a heart-shaped sponge
in her putrid waters.
Morning cresting over NYC moans,
tender anima fingers thinner
than the cheapest french fries.
I slapped for spikenards telling lies,
between light and darkness is
the unbearable truth: why so many
parents perforate the skin of abandoned
sweet children. Forever. Wish I had more
(opportunity) like chances like embers
to burn these bones to leave nothing:
nor leafless flowers but splattered love.
It's a game exchanged inside multiverses
of fruitless labor for the human mind.
:: 05.24.2023 ::
If there’s scars on your heart from the times it’s been broken
Write it down to get it out
Nary a word need be spoken
Cheapest therapy known to man
Burn it up in a metal can
Hidden secrets up in the smoke
Ahhhh! The emotion it evokes
Consumed
I remember in poverty,
eating ramen noodles,
daily.
Beans and Weenies.
Meatless sauce
spaghetti.
Rice, Rice, Rice,
without any real
spice.
Bologna Sandwiches.
Hamburger Helper
mixes.
Fried Spam,
and all kinds of meat,
canned.
Hot Dogs on a stick,
burnt to a
crisp.
Catfish from the creek,
yellow belly
meat.
Milwaukee’s Best.
Another broken
promise.
The cheapest smokes.
Always gotta have
those.
Colon cancer, Rectal cancer,
lungs and
brain.
A hole too deep,
at least six
feet.
Same old hole,
no matter where you
grow.
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