Anti-Poetical Sayings
Michael Shoemaker
You will have to pardon me
in these times of trouble, inflation and sleaze
for rattling off a few anti-poetic sayings
with astonishing rapidity and ease.
“Preparing munchies for the lunchies
while restless at breakfast” is a classic
saying you really cannot doubt,
but “catching sneezes in my sleevsas
(or sleeves)” is another you can tout.
You can “toil and moil with cooking oil”
morning, noon or night or
“middle for diddle” aiming for
the great bull’s eye of life.
So to poets with a modernistic flair
when you’re tired, weary or worn
feel free to join the bandwagon spree
of anti-poetical sayings long forlorn.
You’ll find it something magical
To lessen the mind’s pollution breeze
if you endure with patience
this gentle little tease.
Michael Shoemaker
You will have to pardon me
in these times of trouble, inflation and sleaze
for rattling off a few anti-poetic sayings
with astonishing rapidity and ease.
“Preparing munchies for the lunchies
while restless at breakfast” is a classic
saying you really cannot doubt,
but “catching sneezes in my sleevsas
(or sleeves)” is another you can tout.
You can “toil and moil with cooking oil”
morning, noon or night or
“middle for diddle” aiming for
the great bull’s eye of life.
So to poets with a modernistic flair
when you’re tired, weary or worn
feel free to join the bandwagon spree
of anti-poetical sayings long forlorn.
You’ll find it something magical
To lessen the mind’s pollution breeze
if you endure with patience
this gentle little tease.