My home town,
Levelplayingfield, Maine,
follows Isaacnewtonian rules
(“Ev’ry act
prompts an equal and opposite one”),
held in libraries, courtrooms and schools.
We’ve got rest’rants which run in the black
‘cuz their chefs relish cooking the books.
Still, what’s
up winds up down (Lev’field’s that
kind of town):
Lately, cops
have been booking the cooks.
We’ve a truck
farmer, potting his plants.
There’s no
flora this fella ain’t got.
But our drug
laws be changing, and now he's engaging
in happy
hours planting his pot.
Our asylum hires men in white coats,
employed padding
the cells of the mad.
Now, in order
to amp up the occupancy,
there’s a sales
team who’s selling the pad.
Town's
hearths are kept spotless by sweeps.
They do windows
as well, and sweep floors.
Still, the
pittance they’re paid (no paid leave, I’m afraid)
goes to floor the poor sweeps. (Zut alors!)
Our locale
boasts its fair share of gamblers
who forever are
hedging their bets.
There are some
who are addicts, who wager their attics,
and lawns,
betting hedges and pets.
We’ve a gym:
boxers punching the bag,
partners
sparring, palookas – the bunch.
Plus, we’ve one
ex-contender who’s been on a bender.
(I tell him, "Hey, Joe: bag the punch!")
At our ballpark,
the pitchers fan batters.
This I’ve
watched -- season seats! -- from the
stands,
where I’ve
witnessed, as well (such a sad tale to tell),
horrid
hooligans batt’ring the fans.
And, of course,
we’ve a local Don Juan.
who would buss
every miss that he could.
But, though
urged to leave town, this Lothariol clown
opts to miss
ev’ry bus out the ‘hood.
We’ve a
pest-control service as well.
At espying out rats they're first rate.
We’ve the
Lev’field Security Agency, too:
Good for
ratting out spies. (Finks we hate.)
I to all who’d
hold office in Lev’field:
"Toss your tam
in the ring! Weigh a run!"
(Although all
those who do, once elected (too true!)
run away with our treasury mon.)
We’ve a
theater: I edit scripts,
play some
parts, break a leg with the cast.
And a
graveyard, okay? ‘Cuz departing the play
is the exit all must make at last.
Levelplayingfield, Maine -- my home town.
Under
Isaacnewtonian Law,
ev’ry yin yields
its yang. Yet, excuse my harangue:
one such backass burg never you saw!
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