My yard is full of useless things
Items I thought I had to have in my younger days
Some were used
Others were never used
My yard is a dumper-hoarder’s melting pot of stuff.
Ben and Jerry each one of both of them is dumper than the other
Ben and Jerry dump and dumper one of them call the other a sir
If you're having a bad day
Check with Jack
Things not going your way
He's got the knack
If your life's filled with gloom
Check with Jack
If your heart's filled with doom
He's got the knack
If your life's in the dumper
Check with Jack
If each day's a bummer
He's got the knack
Can you see a pattern
Emerging here
Did you check with Jack
To allay all your fears
There's no one to blame
But yourself I say
Not following my advice
You'll get lost in the fray
CHECK WITH JACK!!!
Outside my office window, is a field with a canal running through it,
Today people have turned up with diggers and dumper trucks and are digging the field up bit by little bit.
Oftern barges slowly and gently go with the flow and casually moor there,
But now with all that equipment just to go ashore they have to really beware.
Don't know why they are doing this, no one is really sure,
It's probably to build new houses, everyone knows we need more housing stock,
But you jst can't help feeling they are taking the countryside apart rock by rock.
If you're having a bad day
Check with Jack
Things not going your way
He's got the knack
If your life's filled with gloom
Check with Jack
If your heart's filled with doom
He's got the knack
If your life's in the dumper
Check with Jack
If each day's a bummer
He's got the knack
Can you see a pattern
Emerging here
Did you check with Jack
To allay all your fears
There's no one to blame
But yourself I say
Not following my advice
You'll get lost in the fray
CHECK WITH JACK!!!
I had a neighbor, who had delusion,
Of being poisoned by his kith and kin;
His wife seemed to him lively illusion,
Her delicacies he threw in waste-bin;
Sharing sweets from friends seemed to him a sin,
Eateries could not content his hunger,
As he felt these are but poison dumper;
He carried his cook wherever he went,
Could he, yet, get rid of his strong stumper?
He's half-dead now, in delusion, life spent...
07 January 2022
Some days are winners, others are not
Jury's out but seems things have gone to pot
My mood's in the dumper
My world's split asunder
We've run out of java, my day is pure rot
Bumper Jumper Humper Dumper
In a bare field
hidden behind dense brush
There's a spot where people
cunningly come, dumping
their oversized trash.
Somehow word got out
years ago:
mattresses, appliances,
box springs; just about
anything one could perceive.
I often find myself there
in awe of this surreal collage.
A community collaboration;
sensational work of artistry.
Each tossed trash
enriching another, fitting
together like a
carefully planned sculpture-
creating a grand design.
Each trash dumper
contributing another
piece to the craft:
beer cans beside worn
baby strollers; bald tires
fitting nicely near
shopping carts.
They come one by
one, each in their
own special time
as if lovingly tossing
flowers into an open grave
has carefully as
Alexander Calder-
a masterpiece concealed-
very few will ever see.
If you're having a bad day
Check with Jack
Things not going your way
He's got the knack
If your life's filled with gloom
Check with Jack
If your heart's filled with doom
He's got the knack
If your life's in the dumper
Check with Jack
If each day's a bummer
He's got the knack
Can you see a pattern
Emerging here
Did you check with Jack
To allay all your fears
There's no one to blame
But yourself I say
Not following my advice
You'll get lost in the fray
CHECK WITH JACK!!!
Douglas Dempster the Dumpster King
Hates to be called Doug Dumpster
But he's to blame if that's his name
Denying it is a real stumper.
Mashes the trash, burns it to ash,
Recycles all that's allowed;
A self-made man with a garbage can
That ought to make him proud.
Dougy Dumps whines and grumps
"Nobody gives me respect!
If not for me the world would be
Garbage-bedecked! Cluttered and wrecked!
Sad and neglected, infested, infected
But thanks to me it all gets collected!"
Well thank you Doug-in-a-Dumper
For keeping our alleyways bright
Put on your very best jumper
And we'll take you out tonight.
people think i am lost in the essence of time
the machine in which i live makes the world change emotive colors
there are some who think that i left my smile in the bed with my personality
i am lost in a space where i sprayed febreze to aerate my comfort zone
then my left hand is observed by all the judges that study me
my left hand begins to twitch, but i remain calm and medicate myself with daydreams
within said daydreams, the beautification of being lost for the purpose of sanity maintenance awakens me
then here i am in this dumper dust reality again
there are those who believe i am invisible amongst the population of time
two cookie shakes later, i am on droopy mode when i simply reply....YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M HAPPY....
Some days are winners, others are not
The jury's still out but seems today's gone to pot
My mood's in the dumper
My world's split asunder
We've run out of java, my day is pure rot
© Jack Ellison 2015
It's seven in the morning
The sun's shining bright
What more could we ask
What a glorious sight
Sure great to be living
On old planet Earth
There's no greater feeling
Than a new day's birth
Some wake with a frown
With a miserable face
With all that we have
That's an utter disgrace
The one's that are fortunate
Are the ones that can laugh
Their world's in the dumper
But they know it will pass
The sun will come out
We'll be singing once more
As we come to the end of
Yet another damn war!
© Jack Ellison 2014
If you're having a bad day
Check in with Jack
Things not going your way
Check in with Jack
If your life's filled with gloom
Check in with Jack
If your heart's filled with doom
Check in with Jack
If your life's in the dumper
Check in with Jack
If each day's a bummer
Check in with Jack
Can you see a real pattern
Developing here
Did you check in with Jack
To allay all your fears
There's no one to blame
But yourself I say
Not following my advice
You'll get lost in the fray
CHECK IN WITH JACK!!!
© Jack Ellison 2013
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