A couple of offerings today of a lighter nature.
Funny
After all the words and sentences
I’ve learned something about me,
and I’ve been writing stuff for 15
years or more,
I’m not the slightest bit funny.
It doesn’t matter how hard I try,
after all the metaphors, similes
and so on,
my jokes are the sort to make you
cry,
Dad jokes but without the
punchline,
the intention to amuse is present,
but the skill is not really mine.
But writing is the drug of choice,
no wish to go cold turkey,
just hope that someone hears this
one small voice.
©David
L Atkinson June 2026
Remember the Emperor succumbing to a grifter's tale that he had a fine suit of clothes, when he was in fact naked. Well, art is open to that sort of grift.
False foods
Had a slice of science training,
learnt a bit of human anatomy,
a smaller chunk of plant biology,
I might sound like I know what I’m
saying ,
Green stuff is not that good for
you.
cell walls contain cellulose,
defined as roughage is close,
appendix no longer able to do what
it is meant to do,
so the final outcome is just more
poo.
Then the fallen one jumps on the green
band wagon,
adds a plant to his artillery,
pungent, stringy and full of water,
good for you is celery.
Like the emperor’s suit of clothes,
taste is in the eye of the
beholder,
each mouthful is no gastronomic
rose,
celery needs a cold shoulder.
Speaking of taste, consider the
oyster,
who decided this would be good to
eat,
in fact a starvation buffer,
now a delicacy to the elite.
©David
L Atkinson June 2026
God Bless
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