Mary

 

 

Mary owns a bakery

So plump and dough boy round

She likes to check out movies

For there's no one else around

She drives an old Toyota

That's seen it's better days

The horn has been broken

The radio never plays

Mary has many pets

Two dogs and lots of alley cats

And one used up circus clown

Pees off the porch out back

She likes to take her pets for rides

Sometimes they go downtown

To the city parks where her dogs

Dump upon the ground

Joe was Mary's older brother

He died in Me Lei , Vietnam

She has a younger brother

But it's been some time

Since he has been around

Once Mary got an offer

To run the Library on the green

She procasternated until it was too late

The job was filled by Mr. Clean

Mary had a boyfriend

But that was long ago

Now she eats buttered popcorn

While the movies roll on and on

With a cat purring on her lap

Two dogs sleeping by her feet

It's Sunday morning rising

And that clown gives me the creeps