Poems 4 The Funeral.
a
A squint in a flash of Sun
interpreted a wink
brought out an angry gun
& raised a stink
Three corpses were counted down:
--2 men, 1 dog--
(an old lady was hit with a log
--but it was just some clown)
b
Standing in the way of harm
a Tack kept watch
(available to any toe)
to see (without any alarm)
what it could catch
Wouldn't you know...
Along a (big ole) Thumb
came, without tact,
and got stuck dumb
'fore it could act
intelligently...
Ouch! then jumped a hill
and fell into a hole (earful)
Had it gone any other way at all
tack'd be there still
c
Less horse than ass,
two mules upon a trip
outside the farmer's clear consent
went (trying to look quite hip
in their adventurous experiment)
when they were spotted by a cop:
"Quickly," one mule said to the other:
"Brother, tell him you're an antelope.
I'll tell him I'm your mother." And
they would have got away with it,
too, had not the mule that spoke
laughed like a dope...
done in by his wit
The only thing that escaped the cop
was the joke.
d
"What sees't thou out there?"
King Priam asked the first look-out,
who answered him (erroneously
as it later turned out): "Sire,
there's nothing out there
but this really big ass."