Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes
Funnier than a sharp stink in your eye…
The earthworm’s worth a second look it’s more than something on a hook. If they’re in your garden, for what it’s worth they aerate and fertilize the earth. Show one to your sister Beth And, you will scare her half to deth. A chow doesn’t chase sticks or perform any other tricks. If you tell […]
Read More Three More Bad Poems[Thanks to Deb for inadvertently giving me the idea. Happy Thanksgiving, one and all!] Hide their rhyming dictionary. ◊ Avoid inspiring them. Keep them away from clouds, Grecian urns and especially flammable tigers. ◊ Get a doctor’s note. “Sorry sweetheart, but I can’t listen to your poetry, today. Doctor says one more rhyme might kill […]
Read More How to Discourage Your Poet[I am SO sorry] Ol’ Lady Hubbard went to her cupboard to get her poor doggy some weed But it turned out the pup had smoked it all up And, left her with one tiny seed. She went to the trailer park to get him some crystal but he acted so crazy she slept with […]
Read More Ol’ Lady HubbardHigh-fiber is great, so they say. It makes you poop twelve times a day. It might be good for colon health but it’s a terrible thing to do to yourselth.
Read More Good Colon Health is ImportantSecond Millennia B.C.E – Gilgamesh tells the story of two brothers. One god-like and the other bestial. It was later adapted for television as The Odd Couple. ♦ Eighth Century B.C.E. – Homer writes the Odyssey and the Iliad. Homer was, by most accounts, blind and illiterate, so he had to memorize the entire work […]
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Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 