No Kidding

 

 

If I send you for the left shoe

And you bring the left shoe

Wouldn’t that be the right shoe?

 

But if send you for the left shoe

And you bring the right shoe

Then that would be the wrong shoe

 

It’s like driving in Barbados

To drive on the left is to be right

But I guess you knew

 

That’s a collapsible chair

You better not sit on it

Why? You may ask.  Well it might collapse

 

If the house burn down

You may have saved some stuff

But if it burn up nothing might be saved

 

The bottom line is that if you work hard

You would likely reach the top

If not your top will be someone’s bottom

 

If I ask you if the answer is no and you say yes

Then your no is the same as yes

It means for once I can trust your word

 

To dig a hole one starts from the top

But get out of it he starts from the bottom

If there is no top there is no bottom

 

He told the truth when he said he lied

But he lied when he said he told the truth

Don’t you worry; I have the proof

 

 

People living near a cemetery

 Are never buried therein

But then again neither are those dying elsewhere

 

He was standing at the front of the church

But the evidence was inadmissible

As to whether he was inside or outside

Either of the two was probable

 

If one is coming back now

It would have to be now he is coming back

Chances are he will arrive later

 

If nowhere is no place

Then how is it possible to get there?

And more particularly to get there by doing nothing

 

There’s one thing I cannot do when I am sleeping

That is to wake up

Yet that is the very thing I am expected to do

 

I am especially concerned

When I am not concerned

Since not to be concerned

Gives me a very good reason to be concerned

 

Is it possible to do the impossible

When the impossible is not possible?

Yes, only if the impossible is possible

Then God can

 

Stewart Russell © August 22, 2021