This Poem Stinks But It Uses the Word and After All I'm Half Listening to Music and It's Late and Past My Bedtime
The world is mighty weedy,
And fertile soil is needy.
To grow past mere appearance,
A seed needs proper clearance.
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"I thought I'd unwind with a favorite book,"
Said Philip the famous aspiring young cook.
How better to rest from a long day of work
Than recipe-reading? (Okay, it's a quirk).
It's Dictionary Night, Folks
A sociolinguist is someone who thinks
Our speech is more coarse as our universe shrinks.
Something You Did Not Know
Orcadians are island folk;
They live to boat and fish and joke.
The Will
Eliza chose to plate her teeth
With gold and silver, then bequeath
Her fortune to the child with brass
To pick them clean: a thought so crass,
She hoped that it would end the feud
That split her greedy little brood.
Faith
Now Sam was prone and known to lie,
And Sally always wondered why,
Perplexed by his mendacity.
Still she would never doubt him when
He said he wouldn't lie again:
She hadn't the capacity.
Pedicure Alternatives for the Snaggly-Toenailed
Dispose
Of hose.
It grows
To pose
New lows
Of woes
For those
With toes.
Hebrews 12:11
Endure the rod,
O child of God.