There Was a Skyscraper
There was a skyscraper 1,000 feet tall
That was only about five feet wide
And every floor was a long, narrow hall
Connected by a slide, outside
How would folks get up to these floors?
(Yeah, that was a bit of a goof)
They called up the architect
And he said, “Well, hey
Let’s install a big crane on the roof!”
And that all seemed fine until opening day
When the mayor said “Gee, this looks neat
But does anyone know how the crane operator
Will ever get up to her seat?”
Jason Nathaniel Smith (aka Blake Baronet) is a graduate of the University of Delaware where he won the Edna Wollaeger Gregory prize for poetry. Smith is an amateur cobbler and patented inventor. He owns an advertising agency and is the founder of an online service that helps nonprofits raise funds for worthy causes. Smith lives in a decrepit Victorian home in Mechanicsburg, PA with his patient artist wife, three “Smidgens”, and a flock of hungry chickens.
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