There's A Big Brown Bear In My Pear Tree

There’s a big brown bear in my pear tree

And a goose in my needly spruce

The apes all live in the maple

Drinkin’ syrup like it’s juice.

I keep some frogs in the dogwood

And great hairy goats in the oaks

The pigs all live in the fig trees

Puttin’ figs down their piggy throats.

I’ve got a macaw in the pawpaw

And a gnu in the big bamboo

I’ve got a boar in the sycamore

And a hawk in the hemlock, too.

I’ve got an armadilla in the willah

And it’s spring, so the buds are bloomin’

I’d live in a tree myself except
Ain’t no tree rhyme with human.

I Live In A Plastic Hamster Ball

I live in plastic hamster ball

You can push me back and forth

You can roll me down a hill until

I can’t tell south from north

I live in a plastic hamster ball

I’m safe from fights or scuffles

The voices from the outside world

Sound muted, vague and muffled

I live in a plastic hamster ball

It’d flood if I happened to cry

But I don’t mind when rainclouds weep

In here, I’m warm and dry

I live in a plastic hamster ball

The thing I don’t like is the sun

When heat gets trapped, it’s boiling hot

I’m roasted from rare to well-done

I live in a plastic hamster ball

I have nothing to breath but old breath

They say that it’s good to recycle

But I think I’m recycling to death

I live in a plastic hamster ball

I can’t chew myself out with my teeth

So I spin round and round in my one-person town
While the giant Earth spins on beneath

A Crumb Complains He's Purposeless

“I’m purposeless!” complained the crumb

“I’m meaningless and small!”

But then a voice spoke from above:

“Hey, that’s not true at all.

You’re part of something larger,

Something grand,” the wise voice said.

“You mean God or the Universe?”  

“No, you idiot. Bread.”