Annya look! Read! Prepare!
What follows now is without compare!
We'll talk of Gods and men and war
Of misery, drunken, sobbing, more
But not just here, not just now
For here is an ode that's not so sour...
Annya is a pretty girl
Annya's very small
Annya makes men's heads all twirl
She captivates them all
She changed a lot and works real hard
Yet still when she's at home
Those happy smiles aren't too far
In person or over phone
She's in Ukraine but not for long
Only wish it were tomorrow
We'll make a toast and sing a song
To drive away her sorrow
Now it's silly this thing to say
But we can hardly ignore
That when she's gone the USA
Feels dark and cold and poor
Inside her lives a happy bird
a cheerful little lark
and when she speaks, a single word
the dark and cold departs
Jay has free time, way too much
To sit down and write this sappy stuff
He'll send it, make A shake her head
"For this I got up out of bed?"
Okay, my wife said she was sick and tired
Of all the sad poems that I've written
She said I've written way too many
And maybe I should think about quittin'
She said, "Write something happy,
And give us all a smile"
I said, "I'm sorry, I just can't do it"
She said, "Yes you can, you're just in denial"
So, Once upon a time lived a dwarf named Happy
You know, from that Snow White thing
He was the one who always had a smile
And made all the other dwarfs sing
See, there was a reason Happy was happy
Did you notice he only had one tooth?
Yep, he really liked the Nitrous Oxide
Laughing gas junkie, and I've got the proof
I looked at his dental records for the past 20 years
And he's been there every day
See, he liked to snort the happy juice
Until the Dentist finally chased him away
Now Happy is Grumpy's twin brother
And both were as grumpy as can be
Til Happy first visited the Dentist
And they filled his first cavity
Well, now that this poem is over
I hope everyone's happy inside
And if you not, just go see your Dentist
To get a little Nitrous Oxide
Not happy was Nina Hyena
Lost had her smile - her grin
I search all the day
To find it - she’d say
A very bad way she was in
To lions went Nina Hyena
To tigers she went too
She wanted to know
Where a smile can go
Neither lion or tiger knew
To others went Nina Hyena
She looked for someone wise
Above in a tree
Said a chimpanzee
At the river the answer lies!
Now happy is Nina Hyena
Back has her grin - her smile
Try looking inside
As there it can hide
Suggested a kind crocodile
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