Pat D'Amico: Good Point
This is a fact of life
Upon which, I always will harp:
It’s easy to cut your own throat
If your tongue is becoming too sharp
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Hank Greenspan: A Posthumous Point
“Ancient European Hunters Carved
Human Bones Into Weapons”
– Smithsonian Magazine
Once, my skull in Hamlet
was the cap of my career,
but now I learn my finger bone
was used to take down deer!
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Damian Balassone: Our Marriage Soundtrack
I think of our marriage quite often.
I think of the music as well.
It started with ‘Stairway to Heaven’
and ended with ‘Highway to Hell’.
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Eve Best: Keep Your Hair On
When life’s a flop, you’re in a strop
and everything’s a pain;
take a breath, remember – DEATH!
And simply start again.
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Raymond Hume: Calling Time
(After reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time)
If the beginning of life’s the same as the end,
And the hole in the middle means pieces to mend,
I’ll die on my birthday: so remember to send
A condolence card to your new-born friend.
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Michael R. Burch: Forbidden Food
I think it's woeful
and should be unlawful
to eat an awful
tofu waffle!
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Russel Winick: Wisdom
The more he learns the less he knows.
He’s shocked to see that’s how it goes.
Unsure what much in life might mean,
He’ll ask someone who’s seventeen.
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Robin Helweg-Larsen: Sew, Sew, Sew
Sew, sew, sew your coat
Gently down the seam;
Threadily, threadily, threadily, threadily,
Joseph wants a dream.
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Henry Stimpson: Apocalypse Not Now
It’s always The End of the World,
doom into which we’ll soon be hurled.
Perhaps a fool, I place my bet:
It ain’t happening. Well, not yet.
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L. A. Mereoie: Change Of Pumps
Tom sold his School of Dancing
And took the Brown Fox Inn.
He now, with years advancing,
Preferred a quick sloe gin.
