Saturday, 8 July 2023

I KNOW I’M GETTING OLD # 3

 

I know I’m getting old

And there’s nothing I can do

When old classmates

Come into your view

And you’re so wrinkled

They don’t recognise you

I KNOW I’M GETTING OLD # 4

 

I know I’m getting old

In the most fundamental of ways

When children ask me

What it was like in the olden days

Thursday, 6 July 2023

ARE YOU WEARING A SNOOD?

 

Are you wearing a snood?

Well I don’t like to be rude

But isn’t it a bit of a palaver

And it looks like a balaclava

I’M SOMETHING OF A JOKER # 7

 

I’m something of a joker

In fact I’m a crazy comic

I have an experimental joke

Sadly it’s a bit formulaic

HUMEROUS HAIKU # 7

 

God’s cruellest joke: when

Men figure how women work:

His manhood doesn’t

RICK ASTLEY WILL LET YOU BORROW

 

Rick Astley will let you borrow

Any movie from his Pixar collection,

But “He's never gonna give you Up”

As that’s the obvious exception

WILLIAM PENN'S AUNTIES

 

William Penn's Aunties, Bakers shop

Specialized in pastries from France

And were fussy about pricing their pies

They were the pie-rates of Penn's Aunts