I Do Not Like Pomegranate
I do not like pomegranate
Theres a reason but I don’t understand it
Its a four syllable word I think
Just let me see I’ll take a minute
Pal… mer… grand… it
Yes sir, that is it
And I like words like that
Generally that is but
Its the definition what
Sticks you in the butt
Pom as in palm
Err as is to say let me think
Grand is just grain
That I just do think
And say it all together
all non noes is just the same but cleaver
In A Canoe
In a canoe I go looking for you
And I hope that you do know that that is just true
I ride past a big teepee
And I think about what I don’t see
The sound of water beneath my touch
Just song o strange to Ron and Dutch
So I just go
Up from and begin to row
Now waiting for the duck to move
nor step out of the shanghrala groove
W Is For What?
What is W for
I saw Wanda and I asked her
What? She said in reply
Oh, thank you much sweetie pie
Leks And Traitors
Leks and traitors
Sponges sponge up alligators
Or maybe they are crocodiles
I’ll be able to yell at you later
Go with greasy peaces
shattered in and out of reaches
Like leks and traitors
Going back to the ranch to mediate
My Glasses Are Upside Down
My glasses are upside down
Some one turned them around
So then the fell on the ground
Thus, and so, I fell on top of them
Glasses broken sound like chimes
Falling down in abstract rhymes
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G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue and Midrash and Working Out Of The Book. He currently volunteers at the Cincinnati J Meals on Wheels, and continues to write. His latest book is Shards And Verse (2011, Publish America).
