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Morning

Poems

There’s nothing like a 10-minute random-word rhyme (or occasionally a phrase) to start the day!

Laparoscope

If my heart hung in your shower, like a bar of soap
You know, the kind they used to advertise, on a rope
But no, it’s hidden in my chest, so now my only hope
To show you what’s inside it is to use a laparoscope.

If my heart had windows, like that song somebody wrote
You’d know how much I love you, you’d ask me to elope!
But I’m not made of glass, so I just sulk and moan and mope
Waiting for the day that we can use a laparoscope.

     I can’t even wear it on my sleeve
     (But if I could now wouldn’t that be dope?)
     You’d see it there and finally believe
     There’s a little more of me that you might like to grope.

(After 10 mins.)
They say that sacred hearts are seen by Jesus and the pope
If you can’t see my broken one, I don’t know how I’ll cope
I thought an autopsy would be the only way — but, nope!
Doc says next week we’ll get a peek, with his laparoscope.

I Smell a Rat

There he is, the infamous fat cat
Telling you he’s king — imagine that
Never is on deck, always at bat
You’d better hold your nose, I smell a rat.

Forget about the cattle, he’s all hat
Full of bull each time he starts to chat
Since he was a boy, a rotten brat
The stench of him is near, I smell a rat.

Here’s the golden throne where he once sat
Tweeted on his phone and pissed and shat
Now he’s gone, but look at all this scat
He left behind. I still can smell a rat.

(Hallelujah) Rose

The Brandy Bar’s a good hang for poetry and prose
You can feel the love, from your head down to your toes
On Songwriter Wednesdays a big crowd always shows
To hear Annie Wenz sing “Hallelujah Rose.”

Of course there’s Todd and Meg, and David Miller always goes
Mona, Nancy, Angela, and that guy who works at Moe’s
Rich Brock with his toolbox full of all those harps he blows
He’ll make ’em moan on “Hallelujah Rose.”


Come on down, request the song that everybody knows
It’s Annie Wenz’s “Hallelujah Rose”
Play Annie Wenz’s “Hallelujah Rose.”