Adieu, Grandma. We loved you.
Christmas won't be the same without you.
We'll miss you a bunch.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
My ankles have arthritis
Walking is terrifying
Especially in winter
My asthma is triggered by cold weather
I wear a mask, because it helps me sometimes
Today is not one of those days
I crunch my boots over the icy tundra that is Kansas City
Wishing I was twenty years younger and sixty pounds lighter
My dogs follow me, watching me struggle
I am glad they do not yet know what being old feels like
It is a private hell, both ankles feel like they are broken
My shoulder is sore from a spill I took ten days ago
It feels like I have been run over by a Mack truck
Because I am seventy-two, and out of whack.
RUN OVER
a child’s mind at play
with the words
“he was run over by a mack truck”
his books flew as he crossed the street
from the public school not far away -
a most busy street.
did i say there is a school there?
kids ne’er slow down -
they keep trucking along.
a huge tire track across a brown grocery bag
the cover of an english book.
a teenager on crutches (years later)
on crutches, on crutches...
how slow does a truck have to go to miss
a small child with books?
a child’s mind at play -
the words had nowhere to go.
i was still learning how to form sentences.
how to express awe and place interjections!
you cross our sleepy village,
near the firehouse,
(they don’t run over children)
and cross the busy busy street
to get to the school.
i rode a bus to Catholic school,
safe -
except for one crazy nun,
who’d run over some.
5/7/2019
Run Over With A Hearse
After I suffering from a caustic curse,
Hit awful man in head with my purse;
Were married;
Child carried,
Then had to run over with a hearse.
Jim Horn
Run Over by a Mule 2d Limerick
In frenzy, we found a fool
Never had gone to school
Or any books ever read
So watched TV instead
Was run over by a mule.
Ho Ho Horn
Both Run Over on an Autobahn
To me there are those people who seem
To appear to be like a bad terrible dream
And even another thought came to me
With Trump, horrible world this would be.
He certainly has a hard head that is hollow
And surely is a hard class act to follow
All of his tactics are so full of much smear
Want him to disappear and no longer be here.
There is tell lies as well as no truce Ted Cruz
Who everyone rule he knows how to abuse
Has beaten and broken them up badly
To Canada would give him back and gladly.
God, all of my prayers be sure to receive
One of them wishes that you would retrieve
The likes of lying Cruz and dominant Don
Have them both run over on an autobahn.
Jim Horn
World Renown Poet and Philosopher
Grandma Got Run Over
You all know the song but do you know the true story behind the song?
Grandma got run over by my Grandpa
But he blamed it all on Santa Claus
I asked why he would ever lie to Grandma
He just looked at me and then he said “because
Grandma won’t remember just what hit her
She’ll believe ‘bout anything we say
So rather than her doghouse for a life time
We’ll say it was eight reindeer and a sleigh
We’ll even write a little song about it
She’ll be proud to be a part of history
So when she wakes up you be sure to tell her
It was reindeer and don’t ever mention me”
So there you have the truth behind the story
About the time that Grandma got run down
She looks at me and Grandpa when she hears it
Grandpa smiles but he and I still hold our ground
Mdailey
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