Beardless

When I kissed my daddy bye today
before he left for work
I was taken aback by the display
Of his furless, hairless smirk.

“What happened to your beard?” I said
Concerned that he was ill
“Did it stay in bed? Or did you shed?”
“Or take some magic pill?”

He started to laugh at my curiousness
About what was missing there
Well it’s CERTAINLY my business
What he does with his chin hair

He just wasn’t thinking, was he?
That big loveable huggable lug
I’ll miss that scuzzy little fuzzy
I’ll miss giving it a tug

10,000 Degrees

It’s easy to tell
when you get the smell
of burning tar in your nose

When the grass is brown
and no kids in town
are playing in the hose

When the Sun is mad
then Summer is sad
cuz the sidewalk burns your toes

But such is your luck
when Earth's thermostat is stuck
on 10,000 degrees, I suppose.

A Picture Says a Thousand Words

A picture says a thousand words
Or so they often say
But who has heard a picture speak
and not been put away?