You are a guest in my grandest castle,

With paintings, statues, golden fixtures.

And yet you break my single rule,

I thought I said, “No Pictures!”

10/21/2016

Stopped for the night at a rundown roadhouse,

Saw the cemetery, but my eyes were getting bleary.

Woke up nude and bloody, chained in a mausoleum,

With the ghost of Patrick Swayze, very eerie!

10/14/2016

Their battle has lasted for centuries,

Although a split decision seems to appear.

William won the literary scholars and,

The commercial dog doesn’t yell “Shakespeare!”

10/07/2016

Impressing Ladies on crisp Autumn nights,

Be that handy fella with an available umbrella.

In Los Angeles though, if you have the notion,

Keep on carrying that SPF 50 suntan lotion!

09/30/2016

Dark as my soul, the night time falls,

Silent, serene, absolutely no noise.

That is, until after the clock strikes twelve,

When I’ve stepped on one of Sammy’s cat toys.

09/23/2016

Tears like silent raindrops fall.

So many attempts that never work.

I try and I try and I try and I try,

But I cannot manage a successful twerk.

09/16/2016

Celebrity fame can rise and fall,

I’ll explain if you permit.

Sammy’s very favorite cat toys,

Are Yoda, Chewbacca and Kermit.

09/09/2016

Having the most magnificent dream,

That I will never remember, I suppose.

Just when the Universe was about to explain,

Sammy bit down on my toes.

09/02/2016

It makes some prone to weeping,

Others to violence or a killing spree.

I’ve got the blues so doggone bad,

Rip open my chest, let my soul fly free.

08/29/2016

So many friends are in this cemetery,

Beneath the dirt, the stone and the snow.

How I wish I could join them.

Won’t you please, please let me go?

08/26/2016