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.

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

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

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

Too busy to care

COVID took a million plus within the USA
Does anyone remember them? It's sad I have to say
But even with this loss of life and if we look real square
America's just too busy, much too busy to ever care

And do we care about the docs who took care of the sicker?
Not really all we care about's that the richer are getting richer
So too those who've worked so very hard to save so many dreams
It's done move on oh come along it's onto the next thing

For those who joined the army and fought in all our wars
The battered and the beaten who come home with all their sores
If you think that coming home you'll find folks grateful for your dare
I sadly have to tell you won't - because America's too busy to even care

The kids who had nutritious food all thanks to the child tax credit
We're far too busy don't you know for us to even sweat it.
The immigrants who need some help in raising their native kids
You are a burden on us and so I'm sorry but we much rid
Us of you even though we know you've never done a wrong
But we are just too busy - move along now move along 

The Power of Tea

My tea is mighty
Ur tea is dirty
Her tea is flirty
His tea is misty

No tea is naughty
Some tea haughty
All tea is malty
Sea tea is salty

... And so on, and so forth... to infini-tea