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[JustDaniel]

Since the pet store food's cagey
our new guinea pig developed stomach cramps
'cause snake's cook book was pagey
and he feared feeling the clamps
of its mouth around it lit up by floor lamps.

[Larry]

His mouth lit up by floor lamps
and the dentist’s breath permeating his nose,
the old man who we call gramps
was just beginning to doze
and be fitted with new teeth so his smile shows.

[JustDaniel]

Fit with no teeth so his smile
would not be described as a dentist's ideal
nor surely would he beguile
last year's blind date to a meal,
The 'vette-owner trusted his automobile.

[Larry]

Owner trusted his corvette
to get him where he wanted to go quickly
and he had a standing bet,
though speed made him feel prickly,
it would lure girls even when he looked sickly.

[JustDaniel]

His lure was a bit prickly
because his dad taught him to fish with nettles
which he always cast quickly
to land among the petals
along the shore in spring where they would settle.

[Larry]

Cherokee Rose

Along the shore in springtime
you’ll see curtains of beautiful white flowers
on thorny vines which will climb
everything ‘till it towers
like a wall, before which everyone cowers.

[JustDaniel]

Cowering before a wall
the little ivy halted even trying
but put down roots in the fall
after a summer crying;
its tears nurtured a growth that's overlying.

[Larry]

pair a sights

A growth that’s overlying
could decorate or be the cause of demise
so think ahead when trying
for landscaping may surprise
and efforts are composted for worms and flies.

[JustDaniel]

When clippings are composted
with leaves and vegetable scraps from your home
quite soon it may have hosted
worms and insects in the foam
created by decay into garden loam.

[Larry]

Loam, created by decay,
is the fruition of new life from demise
and this cycle will display
how God works with the surprise
that His plan will still exists when someone dies.

[JustDaniel]

God's plan is often unknown
to us as we experience our stresses;
sometimes we seem to be thrown
into empty recesses
but we discover what God's grace compresses.

[Larry]

Discover what God compressed
by looking through telescopes into the past
whenever the big bang blessed
us with Earth where we were cast
but if we don’t take care, it will never last.

[JustDaniel]

With some care the earth may last
a decade or haps a century longer,
but we cannot change the past,
and it's been a whore monger
eating up our resources with wild hunger.

[Larry]

Resources are what is wild
because you can never tame all of the earth
and getting Ms. Nature riled
is not conducive to mirth
for she has weapons of revenge without dearth.

[JustDaniel]

Dearth can be its own revenge
doing everything of which it has nothing
when it's been asked to avenge
enemies who've had something
done to them by one to whom they used to cling.

[Larry]

One of them who used to cling
to his mother’s dress for perceived protection
is the one who’ll always bring
some flowers and confection
on Mother’s Day and care about selection.

[JustDaniel]

Show you care on Mothers Day
because you don't do it enough through the year;
of course there's another way:
you could show up just to hear
how she's doing from time to time right down here.

[Larry]

From time to time write down here
everything you would like to say to the world
and then sit back with a beer
and see whose toes you have curled
when they’re like swine and don’t know they have been pearled.

[JustDaniel]

If your swine lap up your pearls
you will need someone to sift through their do-do;
it's not a job for your girls
or they will bid you adieu,
so hire someone without any ballyhoo.

[Larry]

Hire someone without any
expectations they know how to do the work
for they don’t have a penny
and without being a jerk
you will give someone a chance who’ll never shirk.