Happy Birthday to Me
Today I’m one year older,
Today I’m one year wiser,
Today I’m one year closer
To becoming fertilizer.
Black-and-Blue Blues
At my age you discover that a bruise
Is easy to acquire and hard to lose,
And so are flab and fractiousness and flu,
But as for work, the opposite is true.
Hightailing It
I saw a poster on a tree:
A ginger tom had gone astray.
His name was Mr. Pussikins –
I’m not surprised he ran away.
Advice to Surgeons and Writers
If in doubt, cut it out.
Steven Urquhart Bell likes writing because if it’s funny it cheers him up, and if it isn’t funny it gives him a good excuse to stomp about and break things.