Happiness

Sometimes it's enough

to sit and drink coffee

and observe

the leafless dance of branches

in the gray morning breeze

through the glass door

of a November kitchen. - Jeff Barnes

The Treachery of Words

If we have Christmas in July

why can't we have Independence Day in December?

What is the use of sleeping on memory foam

if it never helps us to remember?

An angel fish doesn't have a halo,

nor does it play a harp.

Its main boasting point seems to be

that it's much prettier than a carp.

You may like antipasta 

but that doesn't mean you're against spaghetti.

A Himalayan snowman isn't really abominable,

so please, just call him a Yeti.

Why are gooseberries not made of geese?

Why is breadfruit not made out of bread?

We know that water never sleeps

so what's the use of having a riverbed?

Why do they call French toast French

when it did not originate in France?

Why don't they call it a fowl ball

when chickens go to a formal dance?

Why is there always a traffic jam

but never traffic jelly?

Why can't we buy Indian food

over at the new deli?

Why can we call someone the apple of our eye

but never a grape or pomegranate?
How would we explain our screwed-up language

to someone from another planet?

Why can there be a fork in the road

but never a spoon or a knife?

Maybe I should stop this train of thought

and work on getting a life. - Jeff Barnes