Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]

The Checkout Line 

Death is not like the checkout line because

People at death do not want to look at the

National Enquirer which many people do

Want to look at it in the checkout line at

The supermarket, Best Buy, or wherever.

 

Death is also not like the checkout line

Because most people don't think about

Money at their death although there are

Doctor bills but they're not the dead guy's

Responsibility any longer, obviously.

 

To sum it up the checkout line and death

Are different but one thing is not different

Which is how once it's over you are free

To drive out of the parking lot or go to

Heaven if you are dead, or wherever.

 

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

 

 

 

Lump on a log is not an expression

You often hear but as you get older

You're treated like a lump on a log.

 

If I go to the Starbucks coffee shop

I get treated like a lump on a log

Every time I go in there so as a result

 

I stopped going in there because

I get treated like a lump on a log

Every time I go in there and also

 

If you keep getting treated like a lump

On a log but you keep going in there

You're like the boy who cried wolf.

 

Comments

[Summer Brenner]

Mitch Sisskind has a gift for funny haha and funny peculiar. Either way it's funny!