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Furniture Police |
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D.Lester Young Senior Member
since 2001-12-08
Posts 1219Austin, Tx |
In T Town we have a new force The furniture police They go looking into private porches Looking for indecent furniture But here it must be naked For if it is covered You may get ticketed They enter your back yard And may see your rocker You better be sure It has an outside label on it You may want to try To camouflage it As flower pot For they are still legal Providing it does not have Any funny weeds in it In garages Never leave them open For internal inspection Because a picture May prove your guilt Putting the burden of innocence On you saying your neighbor did it They say you can have a yard sale Selling your household goods But you must put a guard on it Less someone dares remove something For it is a controlled substance But remember her also Furniture here has a curfew And has to be in before dark Maybe it would be wise To now buy inflatable furniture That way you can hide it In a small box Or bust in case of a raid But remember here You can show your navel But never what you sit on I do not know What will happen game day As all those recreational vehicles Come into town for tailgate parties For parting is about to be banned Use wood or plastic furniture Made from disposable material For they be used for bond fires After police confiscation But please no additional padding For in this college town We have an infestation Of life-size mosquitoes Who infected our sofas On private porches By the way remember here Wearing the colors of Auburn Will make them a rodent here So in need of pest control We strive here for an education To rid ourselves Of mosquitoes going outside For learning here now Must be done with grass Green grass The one you mow With blades This is troubling For as I try to explain things It fails to make the grade For the more mosquitoes Your import into this city The more you have to hide And being a citizen here Does not offer you no relief By the way Do not ask what They do to people Who take those tags of furniture For they are exiled in such humiliation Branded for life As tag abuser The regular police here Will probably rebel in pride Leaving a health department With meter maids Walking the streets of T Town For those evil culprits Who defy city law These ads has brought to you By your Alabama education department Whose dictates a strict compliance Of city and state regulations In order to improve relations By eliminating the need For civil disobedience And the use of free speech Thought: It is bad when you have to camouflage your own property from governmental control. Maybe all the students need to camouflage themselves on their private porches. They may even use the American flags to display pride but make sure you leave a light on it. Question: Since you can no longer use your porches here freely does that take them of the tax rolls? This is a funny satirical work that spoofs fun at legislative politicians. Without them we may not need them weapons for mass destruction of social values in laws controlling what we can and can not do. D.Lester Young 12/30/2002 to 1/1/2003 Tuscaloosa, AL Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry) |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
enjoyed very much! |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
this made me laugh. But its making me think a bit too... amusing write  Always, Alyssa - And so it was that time stood still - |
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