There once was a fellow from Syria,

The mother had a bad addictionto gambling in her jurisdiction.One brother used amphetaminesthe other started in his teensto rob and steal and even killit made the family quite ill.One day the father, chaired a meetingnext day his daughter started eating.The mother won a million bucksone brother said this life, it sucksthe other changed identityand ended…

a gray and stringy, foamy pithit caused a great delusion.He thought he was a gifted boybut to his consternationthe only person to enjoyhis immature narrationwas mother who, between TV,soap operas and Springerread all his so-called poetryand raised her ladyfinger:My son, the poet, bless him Godsome day will have the massescome running just to hear his…

Standing soldier now I see,Bringing lava flow from me.Shining cleft to beckon you,Come and sample nature’s dew.

She would have graced big city mallsand told me she liked Matzo Balls.By which she meant those oval eggsthat hang off males, between the legs.Though dark of skin her real homewas not the Southern town of Rome.Hugh Hefner was her dear old dadhe’d started this attractive fad.Down in Australia they have bunniessurrounding little shacks called…

at dawn.You stoodand simply washed,while pale-faced twinsregarded me,who waswell hiddenin the forest’s trees.My heart stood still,fell into silent mode,so deep in lovethat it can neverbe undone.It’s beena thousand dawnsthat I have stoodto see you there.In love but filled with fear.While you,oblivious to me,just stand there,in the icy waters.And simply wash.

I came to the old weir.And, as I passeda butterflyflew up to greet me here.She went around in circles thenand looked me over well,I thought perhaps she just liked men,that’s when I almost fell.I’d kept my eyes on her too muchand didn’t see the rock of ages.And so my bare foot’s painful touchnow caused the…