A most unlikely teacher
turns me into a preacher,
while teaching parents on the job,
he soon calls Dad not Dad but Bob.
As he grows tall and confident
Bob wonders where the decades went.
First girlfriend does elicit wince
as fades your own significance.
The word redundance comes to mind,
you sit and ponder, left behind,
what will the world mean to your lad
and should you help, as you’re the Dad.
The horseman asks to hold him back
or spoon him up, right down the track.
you may approach me in the darkness with a knifeand plunge your dagger through my heart, I be the fool.Yes, I admit, there is convention to uphold,no citizen may fail to tend the plants,no renegade is welcome here, he may be boldand sing his hippie songs and silly chants.But listen folks, and listen well and…
The day was triste – YOU were the sun,you waited for the screen to flicker.You sound like me when I can’t waitto be with you, and with each other.It’s reminiscent of a datewith cautious guidance from your mother.Had I been there to see you run,I’d come to you in secondsto pick you up and carry…
They would not be ableto hunt.Flesh-eating bacteriado get fat.They would eat much lessif they remained thin.
awakens those who share her roomstill fearful of their private doom.The nurse had ventured out and inher cheeks in a sardonic grin.‘You all must die some day, you hear?But do not fret and do not fear,as long as I preside and ruleyou may just lay your bits of stoolinside the pan (but do not spill)…
It keeps the system working fine,though by itself is seldom seen.It breaks down into something thatattacks, like Drano, all the cells.It travels through the body’s fatand triggers there the warning bells.The name is Homocysteine,discovered forty years ago.McCully saw it in a teenwho died from it. It was a blow.We humans do have great defensesagainst the…
with a nubile young maidwho’d ensure he’d get laidwould bestow a perpetual grin.An enraged and surprised congregation,after thorough consideration,voted twenty to onethat he’d live with a nunwho would practice, each day, flagellation.Said the elders ‘A priest must abstain’,lest the practice would render insaneall the good in his headthrough the deeds of the bed.He agreed since…
