I keep tin cans tied
to the back of my car
not because
I was married in the 1920s,
but to attract goats.
I keep tin cans tied
to the back of my car
not because
I was married in the 1920s,
but to attract goats.
Before the approach
amateur bowler Babe Ruth
used to point in the direction of the lane
that he intended to bowl in

On the street
I found a wallet
full of cash.
***
But it turned out
it was my wallet
***
And that’s too bad.
Because in my head,
that money was all
ready spent
.

chapter 13
“… the old gypsy’s curse
that I would grow up to
become Paul Whiteman
had come to fruition!”
If at
exactly midnight,
I were to tell
two friends
that to-day was
my birthday,
***
And they, in turn,
each told two people,
***
And they each
told two people,
***
And so on and so on …
By the following day
***
EVERYBODY in the world
would know it
was my birthday
***
And I would
still be spending it
alone with my
slide-ruler
.

Instead of
calling my crimes
petty theft,
why not call them
pretty theft,
because I am
beautiful.
.

Grammatically,
My upper teeth
are in caps
and my
bottom teeth
are in
lower-case
Pontius Pilate
was said,
(to his
suffering wife’s
dismay),
to have
washed his hands
of Jesus
thirty-three times
a day
I couldn’t find my
ouija board
***
so, instead
I used my
monopoly board,
***
and Good News!
***
the spirits tell me
I just won
second prize in a
beauty contest!

Do you know what’s
underrated?
People coming up to
me & telling me
that I’m underrated
As Christ
used parables
to keep secrets
from the
common people,
so, Trefology
uses whatever
you think
these are.

Keep circulating the URL
(Matthew 13:10-13)
I was just thinking,
if Jesse James had
owned a flying horse,
he could have robbed
the Wright Bros.
***
But Jesse James had
been dead for some
twenty-seven years by
the time of the
Wrights brothers,
***
so, just forget I mentioned it.