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These are denoted by a =>. Read these and then read the following poem or poems. I'm sure you'll find them much better, after reading another point of view. => FALSIFY-"If I put a book on my head, it falsify move." LIMERICKS There was an old lady named Drake Who wanted to transport a cake Across a lagoon Upon a pontoon; But Drake dropped her cake in the lake! There was a young man from New Delhi Who had a great passion for jelly; For breakfast and lunch A full jar he would munch, Till his body was nothing but belly! => Show me a chiropractor who's a practical joker- and I'll show YOU a guy who tries to pull people's legs! HAIKU I hear the anguish I feel the warmth of my own What is going on? I exit the balloon air rushes, voices abound Years go by, I DIE! => Conceit is an old disease. It makes everyone sick except the person who has it. TANKA I work the magic I weave the strands into gold It often unravels I see the many changes It throws me its knuckleball.... I am swirling about caught in some infernal hell wind rushes, brains scramble houses fly above my head, crash along; caught in this huge spinning hell.... => An air traffic controller who worked the night shift was constantly pestered by a wiseguy pilot who landed at his field regularly. Everytime the pilot came in for a landing at night, he contacted the tower for permission to land and said, "Air traffic controller, guess who wants to land." Finally, one night the controller had his fill of the pilot's nonsense. When the approaching pilot said to him, "Air traffic controller, guess who wants to land," the controller shut off all the runway lights and replied, "This is air traffic controller to guess who wants to land. NOW GUESS WHERE TO LAND!" => "Does your car knock?" "No, it just scratches at the door when it wants to come in." CINQUAIN Able to de-create wasting away the good to live our foolish sorry lives poor earth. Useless All that life is As Ecclesiastes Has pronounced in all his teachings Life is... => I never learned anything in grade school. My teacher was so fat that everytime she turned around, she erased the blackboard. -Robin Williams EPIGRAM Someone sees the hell of war never again to want any more. I saw the son of a seventh one unable to live the life he won. => ATTENTION! GOLFERS! DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE COMPUTER TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS O A T O F PL A O F FS TORONTO BLUE JAYS ONTO B E S T S E A S O N => "I just read where the Department of Commerce says that by the year 1995, there'll be over 200 million cars in this country." "I guess that if anybody wants to cross the road, they'd better do it now." ALPHABET BASEBALL At-Bat Bunt Called Out Dugout Earl Weaver Flyout Groundout Homer Infield Hit Jump Koufax Linedrive Mound Ninth Inning Out Pop Fly Quit While You're AHEAD Relief Pitcher Strikeout Throw Umpire Valenzuela Whiff Xciting Yogi Berra Zoooom! NAMES Aaron Beth Charlie Dave Earl Fred Greg Harry Irene Jerry Kira Larry Mark Nathan Otto Paul Quentin Rick Steve Tom Unice Vinnie Walter Xavier Yolanda Zack => BOY-What are you doing with that piece of rope? OLD-TIMER-That's not a rope sonny, its a weather gauge. BOY-Well how do you tell the weather with that rope? OLD-TIMER-Its simple sonny. When it swings back and forth, it's windy. When it gets wet, it's raining. FREE VERSE THE REALITY do you sleep with a micro phone in your face to record all of the ideas in a dream ( that may be lost) of the greatest thing- I saw through the skin and flesh and the falsehoods of self-esteem and I saw - me. Just me. => The telephone on the editor's desk rang insistently. When he answered, a voice said, "You're all wet about the high cost of living. My wife and I live sumptuously, eating everything we like, on less than a dollar a week." "A DOLLAR A WEEK!" cried the editor. "I can't believe it! Won't you tell me how you do it, and to make sure I get the story straight, please speak louder." "I can't speak louder," came the answer. "I'm a goldfish." ACCEPT IT OR LEAVE IT TO BE Standard see we can see past the standard at by which we are judged. Do we know what we are judged by or are we waiting to accept our fate? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO WALK THE WAYS OF THE SCHOOLED ONE 1 to ten A to Zed learnt back and forth to the edge of insanity poring over books and listening to fat smelly teachers and sing about forgotten scriptures and nothing to believe a basis to think to live a life of learning. A's! B's! FAILED! S.O.B.! No allowance! Left to learn in sorrow school => "My day started off bad. This morning I slept through the alarm. To make matters worse it was my smoke alarm. You can't imagine how depressing it is to open your eyes the first thing in the morning and find yourself ten stories up on a ladder over a fireman's shoulder." -Bill Cosby LOOK BUT JUST SEE THE IMAGE Ought to Naught with nothing to see wanting the standard yet nothing may see past time. the standard break it for a life worth Nothing next to. -David Ip 1992