Sunday, September 29, 2024

Give me your money PLEASE!

 Hello this is your school
You know we're really cool
We're planning a sensation
Will you give a donation?

Hello please tell me please
Please pay your condo fees
Your payment there it goes
But what it buys who knows?

Hello my name is Lain
I'm running a campaign
And if I lose then all is lost
So can you give don't think of cost?

Hello this is your bank
Our customers we thank
Please stay with us oh pretty please
We really like to charge you fees

So... Give me all your money PLEASE!

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

The end of the world

Well it happened one day in a far future world
It all came to a stop and not one thing still twirled
And nobody nobody not even one
Had any ideas no not even a one

One day all awoke to discover their fate
All ideas had been thought on an earlier date
And now to have just a dream even so small
Well it wasn't allowed! It is against the law

Because on this day on that day when it happened
It turned out that every idea was already patented
So even a thought no matter how meek
Was not legal it was not! So no one could speak.

And one day a young boy said "I want to skate"
And somebody told him "you know your too late"
"Thinking of skating is patented see?
So I would avoid it - but that is just me"

And one day a small girl said "I want a flower"
And everyone turned and they gave her a glower
"Why are you thinking who gave you the power?
You are out of your mind now you go take a shower!"

You might think that to speak is an essential right
But you couldn't do it with all of your might
Not a problem with tasting or with your eyesight
The problem was you did not have copyright

So no one could think and no no one could talk
So around and around and around they all walked
And the happiest people they all were in jail
Where they would make merry and go tell a tale

Monday, September 23, 2024

Superlatives

Of all the words in English a number have been blessed
I'm talking 'bout superlatives they simply are the best.

So why be proud it's like your cowed when you can be the proudest
Who cares about a harmony - go on - go be the loudest

If you're just strong it's not enough it's far from counting even
Because it's clear to be the best you must be Herculean

And sometimes it's not all that hard you only need an increment
A few letters get you from a sad "impotent" to "omnipotent"

If you live a blissful life it's a life that's not the fullest
A little creativity and blissful goes to blissfulest! 

And don't just try to aim for doing all that's possiblest
Because beyond this if you try you can discover awesome-el-ist!

A good life is a life that's lived out quite ferocious
But a superlative life is one that's (I bet you see this coming) 

Super-cali-fragilistic-expi-alidocious!

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

The Obstreperous Child

 Do you want to... No!
What about a... Go!
Will you take a break?
Does your body ache?
I just want to be left alone, for goodness sake!

Will you eat your... Nope!
Can you see the... Rope? I can (I'm not a dope)
Might you eat the... Not!
Then to bed and... Stop!
You can't make me you dope!

I know what to... huh?
I think then you'll be... wha?
If I just make you... Stop stop stop!
Eat candy... No! What, what's that you said?

I said eat some candy... Wee!
But now you can't... I do not see
I might have if you were adventurous
But you're just so so so obstreperous.


Tuesday, September 17, 2024

The Real Tooth Fairy

 As we all know children must lose their teeth
'Cause everyone knows that there's one underneath
Just itching and scratching and ready to go
For new biting new chewing and for the new show

So losing a tooth is the natural way
It's just growing older that what people say
But then there's the story it isn't so scary
About how the tooth must then get to the fairy

The Tooth Fairy's wise oh she's terribly good
But there's more here to learn than what's under the hood
'Cause she's got a bad side - oh why didn't you know?
Then I'll tell the tale if your ready - let's go!

The sweet little Fairy has got a dark secret
And if she told you she'd sure make you keep it
That after a night where there is the tooth swap
That she then trades the tooth oh yeah yeah you know what?

The tooth is then swapped the next day for pork bellies
And then swapped again in an hour into delhis
And then into shady investments they go
Like timeshares in chalets out there in Bordeaux

And then with a slight tiny wave of her wand
It all gets transformed into government bonds
The bonds into futures and before you can yawn
From there see the lines of credit that spawn

And once she's all done with her trades for the day
The market's a wreck but the fairy's okay
She's got oodles of money hidden under the carpet
And she's managed to crash the entire stock market


Sunday, September 15, 2024

Daddy I'm bored!

Daddy daddy I'm bored!
I need a new toy or a cord
(Dad) How bout this bee? No that's too young for me
I was thinking can I have a sword?

Daddy daddy I'm hungry
I could go eat a whole country
(Dad) How bout this sprout? No not what I'm talkin' bout
Can I have a cake that's quite buttery?

Daddy daddy I know I'm a fool
But I scrapped up my knee by the pool
(Dad) We must clean the wound - Oh my god I am doomed!
No please STOP! But can I skip school?

Daddy daddy can we watch a movie?
Something not so mature something groovy
(Dad) One from National Geographic? No... Wait that would be fantastic
Let's get started I can't wait to see

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Life In The Dystopia

What is true and what is not?
It's really hard to know
To deal with all this culture rot
Please uncork the Bordeaux

That have a word they like to use
And that word is "dystopia"
Where they win and where you lose
It's not a nice utopia

Republicans and Democrats
Are at each other's throat-ias
One says "dog" the other "cat"
Who is right? Yes well who knows-ia?

An iPhone or an Android
To call up on your phone-ia
All because you fell annoyed
To feel so all alone-ia

Which books are good? Which books are bad?
There's no one where to warn-ya
Perhaps the answer can be had
On the streets of fair Bologna

Dystopia dystopia
You have me on a rope-ia
When we all have esotropia(1)
Cause life's a three ring show-ia

(1)"Esotropia, a type of eye misalignment, happens when one or both eyes turn inward toward your nose" - found through Rhymezone.com-ia, because otherwise I wouldn't know-ia!

It is all about caring

Fellow Americans on the left and the right
It is time to surrender and give up the fight
It's not that important the colors we're wearing
It's much more important that we all start caring

There Biden on one side and he might just win
But then there is Trump who'd be Pres once agin
But listen to me because I have a warning
We must come together and stop global warming

The cultural war's roiling and folks want to win
On which books are good and which shouldn't be in
But I want to tell you though it isn't fantastic
We must work together to stop pollution microplastic