Categories:
utensils, work,
Form: Free verse
The Proper Utensils
The Fork said to the Spoon,
I want you for my wife.
The Spoon said to the Fork,
I just got married to the Knife.
The Knife said to the Fork,
Best keep your tines to yourself.
The Fork said to the Knife,
Don't try to put me on the shelf.
The Spoon said to them both,
Can't we all just get along.
So they
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Categories:
utensils, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Utensils
I call it a fork and so do you
A shellfish fork or a threek?
Is it a carving fork or a twok?
A knife or a onek?
A spoon or zerok?
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Categories:
utensils, crazy, fun, funny,
Form: Free verse
Mouse Traps and Plastic Utensils B
I unearthed mouse turds in the silverware tray.
The little furry devils are back.
I bought some traps.
The little wooden snappy ones.
The kind my father wielded decades before.
They hadn't changed one bit throughout the years,
Why change deadly perfection, I guess.
I used to think my father was cruel.
Why couldn't he just live trap and release them in a
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Categories:
utensils, animal, anxiety, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Furniture and Kitchen Utensils
Someone said I could probably write
About furniture and kitchen utensils
And still put a funny twist on my poem
So I'll try to live up to my potential
You must possess a strange old noodle
To know how my crazy brain works
Observing the simplest things everyday
And giving them a twist and a jerk
Sure ain't no genius but ain't no
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Categories:
utensils, humorous,
Form: Quatrain