At dinner we let the phone ring
As we feared what news it might bring
Aunt Agnes had borrowed the car
But not to go very far

At dinner we let the phone ring
As we feared what news it might bring
Aunt Agnes had borrowed the car
But not to go very far
Still, last time she called from Sing Sing.

At dinner we let the phone ring
As we feared what news it might bring
Aunt Agnes had borrowed the car
But not to go very far
Although she used our crusty old Mazda Sting

The table top, stained by the wine,

The table top, stained by the wine,
Reflected the morning sunshine

The table top, stained by the wine,
Reflected the morning sunshine
I got out the Comet
To clean up the vomit

The table top, stained by the wine,
Reflected the morning sunshine
I got out the Comet
To clean up the vomit
Whose? I'm not sure, but not mine.

Somebody liberate the garden gnome

You may randomly pick out a name
And with husbands and wives just the same;
But random in meter
Is free verse, you cheater,
And isn't quite playing the game.

The gnome in the garden's got wise

Oh come now don't be so offended
'Twas merely one line got extended
And wasn't it recently
You went on indecently
How Zato found Livvy so splendid?

Ditto

Somebody liberate the garden gnome
He seems to me to feel not at home

The gnome in the garden's got wise
And comprehension has brought him surprise
Those big folk who walk
With voices that talk
Still miss the sublime in sun's rise.

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