Too Much Turkey by Jack Prelutsky I ate too much turkey, I ate too much corn, I ate too much pudding and pie, I’m stuffed up with muffins and much too much stuffin’, I’m probably going to die. I piled up my plate and I ate and I ate, but I wish I had known…

Pouring himself a second cup Sits there without a second thought Continues to read, to see what’s up The newspaper politics, the column that’s hot I hold his shirt that I have pressed He takes no notice that I’m distressed Does he know I’m in the room? Oblivious! Geez..! The big baboon! Our anniversary has…

It took a power outage for me to see the light Of what it is I am really like To hear the words that you said without the noise I could listen close, without distraction of toys I saw the darkness of how I felt surround me The candle that you lit, so profound within…

THE wind is without there and howls in the trees, And the rain-flurries drum on the glass: Alone by the fireside with elbows on knees I can number the hours as they pass. Yet now, when to cheer me the crickets begin, And my pipe is just happily lit, Believe me, my friend, tho’ the…

Young Johnny murdered all his friends. He brought them all to grisly ends. ‘Twere some he stabbed and some he shot, And some he clubbed and left to rot. When Johnny saw what he had done He knew he’d have to hide his fun. He would be in jail forever If Mom saw the limbs…

Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the…