Pithy Poems

Cats who are too finicky Will soon become skinnicky.  

If you pet an echidna, You’ll feel like he’s bitten ya. For his fur is very spiny From his head down to his hiney.

I could use the word “gizzard,” ’cause then it would rhyme, But there aren’t any gizzards in these lizards of mine.  If they had the chicken’s internal design, Then lizards with gizzards would work out just fine.  

Slug, slug, Sitting on a rug. You make that trail? Slug just shrug.

No doubt, most of us have heard of Paul Bunyan. Yes, the giant feller who lumbered through the forests removing natural resources at a pace not even machinery could keep up with. Chopping down trees right and left with his big blue ax he named Babe. Dressing in plaid flannel even before the 1990’s. A big…

I’m sure you are all aware that some disgruntled idiots will stoop to defiling the community coffee pot in an ill-advised attempt to get even with their coworkers for perceived ill treatment. (I apologize to any parents who might have to explain this to their kids. Let them know that this must NEVER be done.) I want you…

Short and sweet, but oh so helpful. Try to remember this, sing it if you have to… to yourself! People in the left lane should all be going fast. People in the left lane should not be getting passed By all the people in the right lane, who should be going slow- -er than the people…

 TEETH Isn’t it great we have teeth in our mouth? Without them we’d say words like houth, louth, or spouth. Brushing and brushing them might not be fun, But what if we had no teeth? Not even one? I know one fellow who wouldn’t do well- – The inventor of gum, cause it just wouldn’t…

Take Your Pick (seemed right to title this one, but who nose?) Nostril left, or nostril right.. Which shall I clean out tonight? **************** Pickled Peppers’ Perilous Plight Prevented! A peck of pickled peppers, petrified by dread. Propitiously, Peter Piper proceeds to pick his nose instead.