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THE CZAR'S SUNDAY DRIVE

By Howard Menkes

Czar Omar of Zanzibar, the Emperor from afar

Liked to relax every Sunday by taking a ride in his

car

His car was a Ford Windstar, with a sunroof and

a bar

A gold plated accelerator, tinted windows,

and a sterling silver radiator

Every Sunday Czar Omar of Zanzibar ate breakfast

in his car

Eggs with bacon, and toast with caviar

Except last Sunday, when he skipped the caviar,

and lit a cigar

The cigar filled the car with thick clouds of smoke

So that Gopher the Chauffeur started to choke

First a cough, then a wheeze, then his nose

twitched, and he began to sneeze

There was so much smoke in the Windstar that

Gopher couldn't see the road

A policeman saw the smoke, and thought the car

was about to explode

So he pulled them over, by a clearing in the thicket

And when he saw it was a cigar smoke, he wrote

them a ticket

And the ticket was so expensive, that when Omar

paid it he went broke

so kids, learn a lesson from Omar, and don't ever

smoke!