Happy Friday Poems

Dear friends,
Here are some fun poems to keep your smiling until Monday. Have a great weekend, and let me know if you need anything or have any questions, or requests for poetry.

Codependent Relationship by Denise Duhamel (from her collection of poetry about Barbies, Kinky)

Barbie says to Ken:
You know that chlorine does to my hair.
But if you insist we go swimming
at least have the courtesy
to help me take my head off first.

~

Budapest by Billy Collins (from his book, Sailing Alone Around the Room)

My pen moves along the page
like the snout of a strange animal
shaped like a human arm
and dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.

I watch it sniffing the paper ceaselessly,
intent as any forager that has nothing
on its mind but the grubs and insects
that will allow it to live another day.

It wants only to be here tomorrow,
dressed perhaps in the sleeve of a plaid shirt,
nose pressed against the page,
writing a few more dutiful lines

while I gaze out the window and imagine Budapest
or some other city where I have never been.

~

And one from me:

Upon Seeing a Collage of my Brother and Me (by Lauren Young)

My head looks bigger than his...