Bigoted people, doing funny things
Like waiting for a cow to lay an egg
From dusk till dawn, like moods, they swing
Through back and forth, to chance they beg
They're like stones in light of day
Rolling and rolling for shallow cause
Without certainty for a glorious pay
They cling through rust just like a moss
*In line of my experiences of daily and hourly persecution by groups of bigots in this country, just because of my former social beliefs.*
January 11, 2023, PST, SPC
The bunny came and hid the eggs
since he’s mammal the question begs
where did they come from?
did he buy lump sum?
wonder what he’d do with frog legs?
What’s with the chicks following him?
maybe they’re there on a wild whim
difference in age?
large, I’d wage
but I am not a judge of them.
Then there is the most obvious question
if Easter Bunny is male, concession,
how could he lay an egg
down his long trouser leg?
I think I need a therapy session.
Their wings move with lighting speed
With Their long straw sucking up nectar
They dash to and fro almost as fast as their wings
Amazing to watch but hard to take a picture
Tiny in shape but so cute
I have never seen one rest
I have no clue how they could lay an egg
I imaging their boyfriend would have the same problem
They are fast little suckers
Try my darndest to brighten each day
At times successful, at times lay an egg
Two times outta three
Not bad 'tween you and me
If I don't improve, you can dock my pay
I'm waiting for you
butterfly
milkweeds are in bloom
MagiCicada 13
Nb minutes after I penned this I received my first royal visit. I just saw her lay an egg!
Try my darndest to brighten each day
At times successful, at times lay an egg
Two times outta three
No bad 'tween you and me
If I don't improve, you can dock my pay
The day of torment
House so tense and humid
Eagerly expecting trouble
Death just at my door
Armed robbers’ eyes with blood stain
Yearning; ‘lay an egg or be killed.’
I shouted--- kaak kaak preparing to lay an egg
Lying on my pot belly
Air no longer fresh--- impure
It was sulphur hot--- I started pushing
Due to fear, I had to lay an egg; at least one
Eyes of theirs flooded with laughter
Gun dull nozzle points the floor--- their fingers at me
Giving me a chance---look at this hen hahaaa heehee hiiihiiii
Safely, I left money and escaped with-
--eyes on my buttocks
I've wondered how a tiny seed,
could make an Apple tree,
but after taking science,
It's simple as can be!
Then I wondered how Columbus,
knew the earth was round,
but history answered that for me,
Without a single sound.
'Course I had a lot of trouble,
understanding about the sea,
but Geography knew the answer
"Twas easy then for me.
Now I'm really awfully smart,
and for answers seldom beg,
but now I have to ask,
"How does a Bunny lay an egg"?
“Don’t take candy from a stranger,”
My mother said,
Unless you’re dressed like Frankenstein
With a hideous mask on your head.
If Christmas is about a baby’s birth,
Why do we buy trinkets and bobbles,
For all daddy’s worth?
When that baby died,
And rose from the dead,
To celebrate they told me,
A rabbit can lay an egg.
I've wondered how a tiny seed,
could make an Apple tree,
but after taking science,
It's simple as can be!
Then I wondered how Columbus,
knew the earth was round,
but history answered that for me,
Without a single sound.
'Course I had a lot of trouble,
understanding about the sea,
but Geography knew the answer
"Twas easy then for me.
Now I'm really awfully smart,
and for answers seldom beg,
but now I have to ask,
"How does a Bunny lay an egg"?
I've wondered how a tiny seed,
could make an Apple tree,
but after taking science,
It's simple as can be!
Then I wondered how Columbus,
knew the earth was round,
but history answered that for me,
Without a single sound.
'Course I had a lot of trouble,
understanding about the sea,
but Geography knew the answer
"Twas easy then for me.
Now I'm really awfully smart,
and for answers seldom beg,
but now I have to ask,
"How does a Bunny lay an egg"?
No rooster will lay an egg
No human male will give birth
No snail will move fast
No fish will walk
No bird will fly to the moon
No squirrel will hate nuts
No poem will ever die
No phoenix will rise again
Russell Sivey
La Cucaracha
By Elton Camp
It’s not out in the cold where cockroaches hide
But in warm, moist homes they prefer to reside
If you’ve got them now, but never had ‘em before
They may’ve arrived in a sack from the grocery store
Be assured that if you see them when it is still daylight
You’d be horrified if you should check during the night
They will detect you and quickly scurry across the floor
If you see a few, know that there are many dozens more
Water’s a weekly need that makes them regularly come out
They live a month without food, or somewhere thereabout
Cut a cockroach’s head off and it won’t be quick to die
If no mouth, it can’t drink water is the basic reason why
Don’t be fooled since clean houses may have roaches too
There are more in dirty ones because there’s more to chew
American cockroaches reproduce at a terribly shocking rate
The female need mate only once to get to the starting gate
Every two or three days, the female roach will lay an egg sac
And horrors, into each one, about twelve babies she will pack
If, at night, you walk the kitchen floor and hear a crunch
The one that you killed is representative of a larger bunch
Starving a fever,
stuffing a cold I'm following
happily that old
advice: pumpkin pie,
coconut cake, excellent
for easing any ache.
O Chochona!, it's pneumonia,
so much chicken soup
from friends in the coop,
dark and white, breast
and leg have me almost
ready to lay an egg.
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