Lira Options

[JustDaniel]

The ones who connect waste lines
are likely the ones who wanted to sue 'er
for de-funding the ore mines
to prevent getting newer
pipes to make their job safer, says reviewer.

[Larry]

New pipes will make their job safer
because the old ones were installed years ago
and worn thin as a wafer,
they’re probably bound to blow
leaving workers in some deep do-do, you know!

[JustDaniel]

So you think you know do-do?
Ever seen an elephant after dinner?
Koala after bamboo?
Horse stuff for a beginner?
Look at the cow pies; you'd think they'd get thinner.

[Larry]

Look at the thinner cow pies
for your fertilizer needs, not the thick one
because the thinnest one dries
before big ones have begun
then your composting task will be much more fun.

[JustDaniel]

Your composting task is fun
if you think of the soil that you will create
when all that crap helps someone
especially when your mate
lights up to see her garden remunerate.

[Larry]

Remunerate gardening
with a lot of help harvesting the new crop
so that fresh vegetables bring
quite a noticeable drop
in bills but overeat and buttons still pop.

[JustDaniel]

If you make your buttons pop
by eating too much produce from your garden
then you may be cooking slop
and letting pig fat harden
in your soup bowl... for which you should seek pardon.

[Larry]

No one can pardon soup bowls
because they don’t have a leg on which to stand
and the chance of their paroles
will never be very grand
but they are gritty if kilned with the wrong sand.

[JustDaniel]

If your bowel's filled with sand
you would do well to stop eating on the beach;
lunch is not for getting tanned.
Try some cottage cheese with peach
and eating where a table will make you reach.

[Larry]

When you reach at the table
it means no one’s there to pass you what you need
and even if you’re able
good manners should have decreed
that’s not nice. Lazy Susan means you don’t plead.

[JustDaniel]

Lazy Susan heard our plea
but her response caused us to go round and round
with nothing but black coffee
on the table to confound
our need for food to eat and drink; she just frowned.

[Larry]

If our need for food and drink
causes adverse reactions in the body
then while chewing, we must think
if it will make us squatty
or is it that our diet is just shoddy.

[JustDaniel]

Dress looks shoddy? Then dye it
to bring out its features with a brighter hue
that may even disquiet
your lover who has been blue;
he really has the need to be snuggling you.

[Larry]

The need to snuggle has you
in the spoon position each night when you sleep
but as you’re aging, you grew
and spoons got too large to keep
so now you’re just jumbled in bed in a heap.

[JustDaniel]

Juggling in bed while you sleep
would be disquieting for anyone's spouse;
bowling pins landing on her bleep*
near scared her out of her blouse;
she changed your meds and threw junk out of the house.


^{*originally head (she swore!)}

[Larry]

Changed meds and threw out some junk
where head and sleep were supposed to be a rhyme
but it merely went kerplunk
and word juggling anytime
when writing Liras should always be sublime.

[JustDaniel]

Writing one under a lime...
never done that but if you insist I'll try
some day when I have the time.
I don't want juice in my eye
so I'll have to work to gravity defy.

[Larry]

Work to defy gravity
and you may wind up being an astronaut
but it’s not simplicity
for the path is often fraught
with the vacuum of outer space where you’re caught.

[JustDaniel]

Caught in a vacuum, you say?
You need to be more careful cleaning your house.
Don't trip on the cord that way
and be sucked in like a louse.
If you're careful, you'll be quiet as a mouse.

[Larry]

It was quite as a mouse
slinking along with its belly on the floor
wondering what’s in my house
or what came in the front door;
pythons know all their food’s caged in the pet store.