JUST TO LET YOU KNOW

I have spent
the money
that was in
our savings account

and which you were keeping
to remodel
the kitchen.

Please don’t be angry
I have bought us
a small yacht
and now we can
sell the damn house

THE MAVEN
a parody for English teachers

Once upon a morning dreary, while I labored, bleak and bleary,
Over many  a ponderous page of gelatinous gore,
While I plodded, nearly dreaming, suddenly there came a keening,
O it was a dean thing to be so leaning at my office door.
"How much longer must I be working at this odious chore?"