Stanley Cooper Poems

Quitting is not in my make-up
It’s not something I do
I’ll give my brain a big shake-up
To find those new rhymes past due
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To prevent a child from reading pathetically
The child should be taught to read phonetically
The long and short of vowels A E I O and U
With sounds of consonants, so he can construe
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I've never been to No-where, so
I wonder what I've missed
No-where's a place I'd like to go
Just to learn where it exists
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Golf, baseball and girls, scantily clad
Obsessions of mine when just a young lad
Not listed here in order of rank
Baseball came first, to be perfectly frank
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Today I thought it might be fun
Writing of things I’ve never done
Like flying out in outer space
Or winning a Supreme Court case
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“It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy”
Is said in veneration
It fits him well and does comply
With deserved admiration
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I’m beginning to look
Like my grandpa looked
When I thought he looked
Very old
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What if what was….never was?

The start of life, a mystery
We wouldn’t have a history
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To keep in step one must keep up
With dances of the day
Just when you think you’re all caught up
A new dance is on display
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It should come as no big suprise
That Algebra, with all its Xs and Ys
Along with its tasteless inedible PIs
Is the cause of many students demise
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