1.
        Brent Bannister burned his bed,
        Opting for a fouton instead.

2.
        Database system concepts
        Come in many shapes and sizes,
        A designer chooses among them
        Based on the data he analyzes.

3.
        Tom's Party Store: cold beer, wine, grocery,
        In winter Tom keeps it warm and toasty.
        Summertime the AC runs full blast -
        Tom's climate control is never outclassed.

4.
        Harvey the hobo rode the rails,
        Stayed now and then in various jails,
        Then invested a buck in an internet startup,
        Now he's no longer quite so hard up.

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<laughs>  Bad in a good way, though. d=

Oh, yes.  Delightfully tacky and a fine example of blunt humor.  #1 
tickles my taste for the bizaare in particular, perhaps because it is 
especially pithy. 

Bad in a bad way.
But John already knows my opinion of his poetry. ;} Shel Silverstein has been
and gone, and nobody gonna bring him back.

I wouldn't demand my money back, for not having payed anything, I think I got
exactly my money's worth. :)

The fourth one reminds me of Piet Hein's "Grooks".  Anyone else remember
them?  :)

never seen Grooks.  care to educate me?

They're these great little books of extremely short poems, with odd little
illustrations.  The poems are somewhere between funny, cute, and profound,
without being nauseating.  A selection can be found at 
  http://www.cybercom.net/~klb/grooks.html
Here's one of my favourites:

MEETING THE EYE

You'll probably find
     that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
     than you look.

Observe that the easiest
     method by far
is to look a bit stupider
     than you are.

aw, cute

Ouch.  Funny.

Rhyming "hard up" with "startup" is a low blow, tho....

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