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Sonnet For A Washcloth

Textured washcloth in a pastel color,

I love how my skin you exfoliate.

You make my oily skin look so duller;

For your great glory, I extoll ye, mate!

When I am lonely and in a great need

Of very crude and masculine release

I need no manual to for to read

To help you bring me to a restful peace.

You cost so little, less than fifty cents

And you loyally last my whole life long;

Textured pastel washcloth, I ask you whence

Did you become so grand, forever strong?

You are more than just a cheap toiletry;

You, my washcloth, are the best part of me!

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Peasant Questions and Engineering Mysteries

Somebody asked “Why don’t they make

“The whole plane out of the stuff

“That they use to make the black box

“That’s all indestructibly tough?”

I told him, “it’s the same reason why

“They don’t make medieval knight’s armor

“With the stuff they use to make chainmail bikinis.”

He’s confused, but hey! He’s just a farmer.

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Your Math Teacher Warned You…

There once was a magical hero

Who divided the whole world by zero.

Trof huaknr jshfl ej

Helfpbe nfhoshe nej

Htppbej jfhw jfjr yeega beero.

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Someone You Know Is Pedantically Screaming “It’s A Crustacean, Not A Fish!”

I think on behalf of those born between

Late June and late July

We need to recognize their pain

And ask the question why

Their star sign is a great disease

(And a pretty boring fish).

I think the other stat signs

Should be diseases too. I wish

That some day in the future

Someone will die of Libra

And we’ll recognize that Cancer

Is a constellation of a zebra.

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The Game Changed Me…

I played a game of Monopoly

And the reactions spanned quite a panoply.

I bankrupted my friends

‘Cause means justify ends…

Now I’ve a monocle and I act foppily.

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Hot In More Ways Than One?

I asked how hot the weather was

On a scale of one to ten,

But apparently that’s boring

So I rephrased and asked again:

“On a scale that starts at Poop

“And goes until my Sadie Sink

“How hot is it?” They said “Satan’s balls”

And now I don’t know what to think…

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An Alternative To The Lemonade Stand

When you experience the Summer

And it’s so hot that you say “Bummer”

I have a solution to your caper:

A fan made from some folded paper!

You can make your own cool Heaven

From a folded eight-and-a-half by eleven

That you swing repeatedly at your face

And hope you cause air to displace.

This air will make your sweat go poof

And you go from hot to cool, aloof.

Buy one now! They’re really nifty!

Or buy two for just $18.50!

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An Important Choice

If I were a chess piece

I think I be a rook

Because I sit in corners

If just to read a book,

I like to walk in long straight lines

And don’t think it’s a hassle

When somebody mistakenly

Refers to me as “Castle.”

I’m not pious for bishopping,

Too smart to be a pawny thing,

I lack the boobs to be a queen

Or the balls to be a king…

So it’s either rook, or else a knight

Who’s called a horse sometimes…

Actually, I’m not hung like a rook…

I’m changing my choice. This line rhymes.

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Yeah… No Comment

This poem isn’t very deep

Because I need to fall asleep.

Tomorrow I’ll do it earlier,

Like a man who goes to the gym at 5:00 AM to get burlier.

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A Hallmark Card For Long-Distance Relationships

Hey girl! Are you a sitting duck

Or you the broadside of a barn

Or another easy-target such-and-such?

You’re amazing and you’re super

And I feel like a storm trooper

‘Cause it’s crazy, missing you this much.

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