Little Jack Horner

When Little Jack Horner had grown into a man,
one day he sat in a corner of a grocery store
eating a plum pie he ripped off from the bakery.

When he pulled out a plum and claimed he was a good lad,
Store Security caught the theft on a store security camera.

They hauled that bad boy off to the pokey where he spent 30 days and then 30 more for stealing an inmate’s peach pie.

When Jack was sprung from the pokey, he went back to the grocery store and stole ten more pies, got busted again, and had to appear before a judge in court.

Because the judge thought Horner, a repeat pie stealing offender, was clinically nuts,
instead of putting Jack back in the pokey, he sentenced him to a mandatory year of psychological counseling.

A year later Jack Horner was miraculously cured of his pie stealing obsession.

And this might be only coincidental, but the manager at the grocery store where Jack Horner stole all the pies from, now can’t account for all the missing cookies.

Bob Boyd

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd