Ima Ryma Poems

I got mixed up with the wrong crowd.
They turned me on to heroin.
I wandered around in a cloud,
A mess in a drug addict's skin.
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I am flying a commercial flight.
The extra charges blow my mind.
An extra charge for weight and height.
An extra charge if deaf or blind.
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Welcome - Psychiatric Hotline.
Multiple personality -
Press buttons 5,6,8 and 9.
Press 1 over repeatedly
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It was the end of World War II.
I, a G.I., in Germany
Was walking down an avenue.
A young German girl came toward me.
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The tale of Paul Revere some say
Was not quite like the poem said.
Poetic license taken may
Have stretched the truth a bit instead.
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Nitrous oxide called laughing gas
Is being dumped into the soil
More potently as time does pass,
Giving the greenies more turmoil.
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I watched a woman make some pies,
In a place where food was not found,
Where starvation was no surprise.
The pies were laid out on the ground.
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I was driving my city bus
In a blowing blizzard of snow.
Two old ladies and me - just us.
They said we passed their house, and so
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An elephant and a giraffe
Were standing on a riverbank.
The elephant let out a laugh.
A turtle came by on a plank.
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Flight 1549, I will
Most certainly never forget.
Because of lots of luck and skill,
I survived the ditch of a jet
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