Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:33 am
In the year of our lord: twenty ought four<br>Three friends of mine and one pal each<br>Heard a knock come form the door<br>At my house down by the beach.<br>All of us amassed on the porch<br>And there was someone who was quite horse.<br><br>Now here is a fact that Ill tell you,<br>About the concrete driveway along the side:<br>There were weeds there, more then two<br>And we needed something to make them abide.<br>The problem was out of control, you see.<br>We didnt want them weeds to be.<br><br>We had been out looking about<br>Around the town and down the block<br>For something to knock those weeds right out.<br>So it came to be, by chiming of the clock,<br>We found someone who was quite strange,<br>Who told us he had something that could be arranged.<br><br>So his day of coming is here<br>And we let him in, of course.<br>He sits down and we get him a beer.<br>While he communes with some otherworldly force.<br>We all hope that this will work.<br>Otherwise we are all complete dorks.<br><br>He did his thing then went away,<br>Telling us to wait one or two days.<br>We sit around, hoping, our hearts at bay,<br>That what he did will make them go away.<br>In a few days, when we bothered to care,<br>We checked and they were still there.<br><br>We sat around and moped about,<br>Thinking up ways to accomplish the task.<br>Whatever we thought, we would doubt,<br>Starting to think cleanliness has past.<br>We needed an idea and we needed it now<br>Otherwise we would have just thrown in the towel.<br><br>Then one of us got up with a flash<br>He had thought of something he said would work<br>He was about to take off in a dash,<br>But he needed three knives and a fork.<br>He went to the store down on forty-forth<br>And purchased something he then brought forth.<br><br>Weed-be-gone was then name on the bottle.<br>All of us were skeptical except for the buyer.<br>With his insistence he aimed to startle.<br>We all thought he was a liar.<br>Only time would tell he did say<br>As he went outside and begun to spray.<br><br>In a few days we all went to the walk,<br>Skeptical but willing to give a look.<br>What we saw made as all bulk.<br>It gave us such a fright and we all shook.<br>We looked down at the ground.<br>There was not a weed at all, around.<br><br>There is a lesson to be learned here.<br>Its very important, you cant miss<br>And it should be quite dear.<br>If youre wondering, it is this:<br>(And it should be a hit)<br>Spray it; dont say it.<br><br>(why cant I sue an apostrophe?)