Short Grouses Poems
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yawns are contagious
especially afternoon
in a lecture hall
boring professor grouses
needs to freshen up his notes
written August 13, 2021
A carpenter nails boards together
The architect envisions the house
The laborer sweeps up the progress
A poet positions
each stanza in the framework
of the universe...
The sun smiles, the moon yawns
the stars wink
On cloudy nights
the puppeteer grouses about the pay
ODE TO MONOGAMY
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with twenty wives.
Old and wizened, hair snow white;
Frail and bent, a sorry sight.
With scalding tongues, his twenty spouses
Followed him with moans and grouses.
I asked him, “Sir, how old are you?”
He said, “Next week I’m twenty-two.”
I wanted a larger sombrero, the spoiled child said.
Weird since she had a ten-gallon hat on her head
That’s all you are getting, her mother said sternly.
But she kept grousing and griping, this child named Hernly.
Her grandmother said “Fine, I will take the hat as my own.”
Hernly had such a fit, she was soon all alone
Except for her old-school grandmother who had a flyswatter.
What are you doing? Asked the naïve spoiled granddaughter.
I have not one friend she grouses to me.
I have known her for years, so how could this be?
I’m not a friend? I ask her worried a bit.
Not in the least, she says, clearly meaning it.
I have no ideas for this stranger now.
I guess she’s on her own, this thoughtless cow.
She calls me the next day and wants to talk.
I put her on speaker, and hear her squawk.
Who was that? My husband asks me.
Not a friend, I reply. For it is now clear to me.