Martha's Vineyard



Build yourself a compost heap

Make sure it's in a wide hole deep

Fence it high around, then feed

Coffee grounds and veggy seeds



Take your ugly green dish soap

Cover it around with pretty tape

Which holds together left-over

Wallpaper full of little clovers



There now - don't you think -

It looks better on back of sink?

Now shine up all the chrome

With peeled onion skins alone



Take out your old wine bottles

And insert lamp fittings on top'l

Then place them all around  

The shelves we did at the Sound



If you forget all my recipes

Then come by my site to tease

Yourself with some handy hints

On how to work with colored tints



Then there's the magazine we started

Two days after we got outsmarted

By Bryant's admonition when late

For the Today show - it was great!



So we began our own show daily

Now we can give you tips gayly

More stuff about how to get rid 

Of the trash which is now hid



Under piles of junk we've saved

So we can show you roads paved

With dead ducks and skid marks

Along with bad neighbors' remarks



Some day you will have to come round

To houses in Westport or at the Sound

So we can play dodgems in the driveway

Or if you like - out on the superhighway



- a Rod Stewart fan

5:55pm Monday November 10th, 1997