Never A Trial,
That He Is Not, There.
Never A Burden That He Doth Not .Bear.
Never A Sorrow That He Doth Not Share.
Moment By Moment,
I'm Under Christ's, .... Care!!
A
man who
wanted to
invent things, he
claimed he had made a
car that ran on water!
Said to be bribed and threatened
by Big Oil, he was deemed a fraud
when he refused to let the court test
his creation. Did no one see it work?
This is but one of the mysteries that
surrounds Stanley, who died after he
sipped some juice at a restaurant.
He gripped his throat and said that
he’d been poisoned, but this
was not proved. Why? Was
he gas-lighted?
Or was he
conning
US??
June 8, 2022
for Joe Maverick's Life Death And Aims Of Stanley Meyer Poetry Contest
Here lies the body of Stanley Meyer
Inventor, salesman, and consummate liar
A brain aneurysm
Might have kept him from prison
Both he and his fuel cell patents expired
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https://environment.umn.edu/education/susteducation/stanley-meyer-an-infamous-invention-and-death/
A kindly man named Meyer*
On poor folks would take a flyer
He took me in one wintry midnight
Knowing naught but my sorry plight
I couldn't yet pay him; I'd just started to work
He told me, "Don't worry. Your money's a perk.
I can tell that you're honest and straight,
and that soon you'll pay me back first-rate."
"What's more,' he said. "There'll come a day
When you'll do the same for another who can't pay."
I'd swear he was a prophet, for his words came true
A mere four years later, Thanksgiving time, 1992
This kindly man named Meyer
Who on poor folks took a flyer
Rescued me one night from a snowy grave
And taught me forever how angels behave
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*Note: The name 'Meyer' rhymes with 'higher.'
December 19, 2020
Clerihew Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh
If I were an Oscar Meyer donut
Living in a Pacific Island hut
I’d be sweet and sincere
And drink all your light beer
Scruffy beach bum sugar hair like a mutt.
childhood mammaries
drive in into the bushes
now they always shave
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