Just passing throughThere happened one day, with tumult and fussA large group of people had boarded a busEach one with their parcel and bag at one handAnd it happened that in that small bandI managed to spot a few interesting fellowsWhose laughs, scoffs, and sometimes low bellowsIntrigued me to listen to tiny bitsOf their conversations and exchanges of wit.Though they may or may not have approved of this measureIm happy to say that I had the pleasureOf meeting a couple of right round good chapsSome laden with backpacks or bags on their laps.While some werent outright and made downward glancesIm sure that even the best
Slacking slackerGive to the rich and steal from the poor. It sounds like such an awful phrase when the person listening to it is reasonably wealthy, but when youre running low on income, you truly wish that money would just be dropped in your lab without any catch to it. People think that this is impossible or illogical, but what if thats not necessarily true? It may not be in cold hard cash right in your hands, but in your tax balance.Barrack Obama is proposing that, if elected, taxes should differ from those with large incomes, and smaller ones. Those making more than $250,000 yearly would get a far greater cut from their payc
The lemonade incidentIf someone was to say "Why so serious" then Batman's The Dark Night would be the first thought on everyone's mind. Or if they were to shout "Adrian" dramatic pose it would be Rocky, "You dirty rat" James Cagney, and so on. But when "Of course it's sticky. It's lemonade" is said, all eyes in my family head in my direction followed with a very large smile.It's Sunday after church. My dad, older sister Jennifer, and I are crowded elbow to elbow, knee to knee in the blue carpeted seat of our Suburban. Though crammed to the brim with things my dad is loading in the back, the thing is still a tank of a car. We bounce along uncomfortably as