Short Glockenspiel Poems

Jeff gets his hair cut for $20.00. The average human has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. How much does Jeff pay to get his hair cut?

a. A whole lot of money
b. Jeff isn’t the average human
c. It was the gardener
d. No, wait, it was Professor Glockenspiel...

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Faster than you can say Professor Heinrich Graf Von Glockenspiel
A friendship is gone
That’s what I called that joint experiment of ours
A friendship
I don’t know what you called it
I never had the honor of being called your friend
I didn't make it past colleague
Epilogue
I was that man who was kind 
You were that woman who was indifferent...

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If by accident, they occasionally
come near to any kind of truth
they tend to breakout in hives,
or shake uncontrollably.

We shouldn’t expect them to be truthful,
it’s asking too much.
Would we demand a dog
cook its own dinner,
or a pickpocket play a glockenspiel
while lifting a wallet?

Mostly and quite contrarily,
we condemn the author
for having lied
a whole lot better
than we ever could have....

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