Rhyme Me A Smile: irony

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Profit Tear

by Rachel Hoyt

image by tiverylucky via freedigitalphotos.net

How dare you ask to use the phone

without paying an ear?

How dare you not eat ground up bone

or road kill a-la-tear?

How dare you demand medicine

to treat your karmic ails?

How dare you let my profits thin

when profiteers prevail?

How dare you rehabilitate

while paying for your sin?

How dare you dream country or state

would let human rights win?

led to this poem of ironic bits.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Image by Phiseksit via freedigitalphotos.net

Examples of irony in real life are amusing,

though generally simultaneously confusing...

the city named for a sainted animal fan.

They'll still allow them to be sold as food.

(Not exactly that for which Assisi stood).

The shelters workers are sad from flushing abandoned fish.

and making young hamsters sleep more soundly than they wish.

They seem to think their work is the ultimate proof

that people's love for animals vanished with a poof.

Their lives are not valued so sales should be banned?

To lend the furry, creepy and crawly a helping hand?

Perhaps they were people who couldn't find a landlord

unscathed to see a car plaque that says, "Paws on board!"

Maybe they also recently lost their house,

but previously would've cared for every last mouse?

A pet ban, to me, seems a little bit rash;

a way for the city to save lots of cash.

The silver lining, I suppose, is they haven't banned pets.

Yet if I lived there now I would have some regrets.

Finding a place to buy stuff for my cat and my turtle

would become more rare than little girls named Myrtle.

Plus, I love to visit baby rabbits and pups at the store.

Petting them is a past time I absolutely adore.