PreTeena by Allison Barrows for December 03, 2013

Years ago the boss that I had at the time showed me a school project his son did. He had to pick 5 poems he liked, and write why he liked them. Two of the poems he chose were mine!

There was a young man from SpartaAmost magnificent pharterFrom the strength of one beanHe`d phart God save the QueenAnd Beethoven`s Moonlight Sonata.

I was at the observatory with Fred.“The universe is round!” he said.“This scope has such power,I’ve just spent an hourobserving the back of my head.”

There was a young woman named Melanie Who was asked by a man “Do you sell any?” She replied “No siree, I give it for free To sell it, dear sir, is a felony.”

There once was a manFrom Nantucket, and he wasConfused by Haikus

I see Tina is over her hair cut. maybe/maybe NOT.

There once was a Sailor named CarterThat man was really a farterWhen the winds were low and the ship wouldn’t goIt took Carter the farter to start her.

Rather like Ogden Nash, but he’d add an elaborate title, e.g. “Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes”: Adam Had’em.