Compliments of the Season

I take my pen in hand today

To write a most attractive lay;

A verse to thrill all who shall read

My bright and beneficial screed.

So watch you out, both old and young;

And ponder well what here is sung.

Would you have happiness and health?

Would you have luxury and wealth?

Just follow this down line by line,

And you may strike a diamond mine.

Great secrets I’ll unfold to you,

I’ll bring a pot of gold to you.

Have patience, yet awhile

For you shall broadly smile,

Shall know the joy and ease

Of reading lines like these,

Shall know the things of life

Removed from toil and strife.

Shall feel the magic touch

Of wealth and fame and such,

Shall know the wondrous kinks

And secrets of the Sphynx;

So read on all of you

The great and small of you.

Good things come slow,

As you all know,

But come they will

Your soul to thrill,

And bring you bliss

You would not miss.

So here’s the thing

Of which I sing.

Please take it cool:

‘Tis April Fool!

March 30, ‘09