Haiku Madness Part Deux

Ripe enough to eat:
nurs’ry rhyme: twenty-four baked
sparrows in moonlight

Sparrows in moonlight
Sometimes comes at night to kill
Those who mention them.

Those who mention them
are keeping a running gag
going - it’s all good!

Going - it’s all good!
Long after the quarry joke
Was no longer fun.

Was no longer fun
That is why I quit poking
Myself in the eye

Myself in the eye
Just like a big pizza pie
That’s not amore

That’s not amore.
That’s a-less-ay, or fewer.
If you roll that way.

If you roll that way
your pie crust will be too thin.
Use a lighter touch.

“Use a lighter touch”
Six-year-old me said to Dad
As he spanked my butt

As he spanked my butt
Dad was not thinking of damn…
sparrows in moonlight

Sparrows in moonlight:
Required by law to be
Retroreflective.

Retroreflective
materials are required
for road signs and such.

for road signs and such
we rely on reading skills
to understand them

To understand Them!
is simply not worth your time:
giant killer ants

Giant killer ants
Must be dealt at once with a
Giant can of raid

Giant can of Raid?
Not what I want for Christmas.
Peace, goodwill instead.

Peace, goodwill - instead
Of those dense Christmas fruitcakes.
Those things give me wind.

Those things give me wind?
No, not at all. That’s because
I never ate one.

-“BB”-

I never ate one
One was way too much to eat
The one ton wonton

The one-ton wonton
was not the menu pick of
sparrows in moonlight