Keeping up with the Joneses, who are weird
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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Categories:
joneses, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Joneses Jetset
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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Categories:
joneses, fashion,
Form: Limerick
Keeping Up With the Joneses
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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Categories:
joneses, body, cry, halloween,
Form: Limerick
K E E P I N G U P W I T H T H E Dow Joneses
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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Categories:
joneses, allegory, dedication, nostalgia, parody,
Form: Quatrain
The Joneses
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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Categories:
joneses, life
Form: I do not know?