My husband's poetry

Category: irony

  • asking tough questions

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    If ancient Egyptians preferred possums instead of cats, would folks share grinning photos of possums on Facebook If early man had domesticated lions instead of horses, would we market pink lions with rainbow tails to little girls If gold was as common as red clay and diamonds were grains of sand would it still glitter…

  • Al’s Saturday Morning Guide To Not Become An Ignorant Fool

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    Never ask a Bedouin how to paddle a canoe Never ask a Hawaiian how to ride a camel Never ask a taxi driver the shortest way to the airport Never ask a pack of thieves to convict a thief 2-8-20

  • Arsonist

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    History is not for sure who designed Nero’s clothes what song he played on his fiddle if it was a top 40 hit or if he fiddled at all but they remember the stench of Rome burning History is not for sure about all of his infidelities or if he was incestuous who hung his…

  • rain

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    Birds are mysteriously silent on the subject of rain Squirrels don’t pole dance on wet trees Neighbors don’t walk their dogs in a storm I’m on my porch wondering what Mr. Chesterton had against cheese 2-6-20

  • Father Barzare

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    Father Barzare blesses 100 gallons of water Father Barzare loads it in a plane Father Barzare crop dusts his little Louisiana parish Father Barzare blesses saint and sinner Father Barzare blesses rich and poor souls Father Barzare blesses the cow, the pig, the chicken, the rat, the insect, snake and worm Father Barzare blesses the…