Joneses Poems - Poems about Joneses

Because I'd been good for a very long while, my parents decided to buy me a crocodile. Then all the kids on the block thought I really did rock. Till two weeks later, another kid’s parents decided to buy him an alligator! Shoot! And now some kid’s braggin’ his parents are gonna buy him a Komodo dragon. Oh, my God! This is way...

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From George Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior: #54 Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well decked… JONESES JETSET Maude, she did pile her accoutrements high upon her head - peacock-in-style. So sly, she looked up and down with thumbs up or frown. This fashion...

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Sammy Skelton, a sorry bag of bones Tried to keep up with Johnny 'Crossbone' Jones He practiced grim groans Produced awful moans Yet never did improve his muscle tone...

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KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES These here are the indisputable facts I was born on the right side of the tracks WITH People who only smiled if their stocks or equity increased If not they wouldn’t have minded becoming deceased They had big cars, big bucks and big time class With a million dollar house mortgaged up the a*s Their...

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The Joneses I’ve never met personally But watched them go by, fancy cars, Posh houses the lot. Yet they are living a lie. Don’t be envious even though you’re out Of work. By this we all know that the Joneses Are now broke. The Joneses could be anyone, one wants to be. Having all the wealth, thinking it comes...

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