Rocky Mountain Roosters
an improvised poem by Dave Brown


there are three things i like
but they do not apply
so i don't think i'll tell you
those things liked by i

this is my first time
writing one of these poems
where everything's random
and nothing's a gnome


i like four-line stanzas
so that's what i'll use
i'm all alone
in a house full of booze

cleo's under my desk
oops, i just kicked her
i guess that's better
than saying i licked her

she's a dog, you see
a black cockerspaniel
so we named her cleopatra
and not mark or daniel

enough about cleo
let's move on to pencils
they're good for tracing things
as long as you've got stencils

and need i mention
this gift box of curve?
it makes me smell good
as i rightly deserve

i have here a movie
teenage mutant ninja turtles ii
the subtitle that follows:
the secret of the ooze

and a purple squee! book
that i've read several times
it doesn't taste like citrus
as do lemons and limes

in most poems i write
there's at least one stanza
that doesn't rhyme at all.
this won't be it. bonanza.

this however, may be
that unrhymed verse
unless i should stub my toe while writing it
and proceed to swear and curse

in which case i'd rhyme it
and make it all flow
as most poems tend to do.

the end.