Thursday, February 14, 2008

Off-Season Over: Life is Good



Life is Good

By James Finn Garner

Winter’s been raw as a campout in Banff.
Your new basement walls are moldy and damp.
Your drapes caught fire from a knocked over lamp—
Relax!
Pitchers and catchers are reporting to camp.


Your check-writing hand's developed a cramp,
Your bills are all due and you ain't got a stamp,
Creditors cling to your neck like a clamp—
Smile!
Pitchers and catchers are reporting to camp.


Your yard now faces a new freeway ramp.
Your son’s engaged to a gold-digging tramp.
Your “guitar hero” neighbor’s just bought a new amp—
Life is good!
Pitchers and catchers are reporting to camp.



Courtesty of a great site, bardball.com
(Where the Yanks lead the AL East by 4 poems!)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ogden Nash would've figured out a rhyme for "Banff". I'm such a hack.

Anonymous said...

High of 70 degrees today in Tampa. 79 tomorrow. Life is good.

Anonymous said...

I would have gone for a rhyme with hippocamp, myself:

But I'm a bigger hack.