Plea to Please

Yesterday we enjoyed lunch together as a family, which included curry... and a funny idea.  Jadon helped come up with the words for this silly one.

Plea to Please

Can I curry your favor with curry the flavor

So spicy, so savory hot?

If I hurry in labor with Murray my neighbor,

We'll soon have a treasured-filled pot!

In the kitchen with fury we cut chicken Tandoori

With veggies, not grown, but store-bought.

We scamper and scurry (never rush, please don't worry),

So our dish gets the attention it ought.

As you appraise my term paper please concede me this caper:

While you decide whether I've passed or have not,

Make mouth agape ere you take in the vapor

And stew, which I HOPE hits the spot!

[quickie sketch on the Paint app free hand by mouse]

YES IT'S NOT

Last night our 11-year-old daughter & I thought of a fun idea for a poem, & before she went to bed, she helped come up with a list of rhyming words to include. I stayed up to put it together, & the photo you see is our 16-year-old son in glorious "double-barrel snotgun" pre-pandemic panache (c.2008)! Enjoy our silliness!

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YES IT'S NOT

Some have claimed the blame for all the trials life has got

Lays squarely at the feet of nasal mucus we call "snot."

But is it true that snot is what made famine, greed and blot

Of war, and all the world's disasters with which we are fraught?

It's not!

Others take a limited line of reasoning and thought,

And blame snot only for bodily woes: diseases' dread onslaught.

So is it true that snot's the cause of all forms of cancer and clot,

Stroke, AIDS, hormone imbalance, gout, depression, and gunshot?

It's not!

All the same without blame in case our race has honestly forgot:

What keeps moist our inward parts for the purposes they're wrought?

What traps dust and smoke and soot to eliminate the rot?

What do you think it is that captures colds before they're caught?

It's snot!