with the rhyming words

Ancient history is legend.
Guarantors protect your money.
Try some sugar on your oatmeal.
If your tastes don't run to honey.
city-states pay for protection.
Dirty Dingus Magee settles.
Take a walk along the nature trail.
Be careful with the nettles.
Play a fiddle.
Use more feeling.
Tuco lived to see tomorrow.
Midnight Cowboy had a girlfriend.
Her name was Brenda Vaccaro.
Dynasties can last for decades.
No need to hold your breath.
The zebra's stripes don't lie.
Turn round the corner--don't fear death.
Poseidon holds the trident.
A gambler juggles dice.
i smoked and ate some dinner.
The guy told me it was rice.
Alfalfa sprouts for supper.
Some cherries for dessert.
Goliath tried to kill David.
As always, the truth hurt.

who really

In the nineteen-eighties they had music.
Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, Corey Hart, Cyndi Lauper, the Pogues, the Bangles, etc.
How, or why, did Ronald Reagan manage with all of this going on?
Dez Dickerson jumped the Prince ship, seems it was due to the loveless eroticism, typified by the Nelson/Melvoin/Coleman smash 'raspberry beret.'
It was a long time ago.
But who really ruled the 1980s?
a) Madonna
b) Prince
c) Corey Hart
d) Cyndi Lauper
e) Michael Jackson
f)  Shane MacGowan

Kita's Aunt Martha

at the Asian noodle-type restaurant.
Loudmouth is eating, across from trophy girl.
Yells at waitress to bring check.
Yells about something else.
Who knows?
Another day, might have nudged Martha, said, "Isn't that guy obnoxious. Who is his date?"
Martha handled it.
"He's sitting there high on the hog with Ms. Kewpie Doll (sic)," said Martha.
Taken care of!

with the car and traffic

so...a poor impulse type would have gone ballistic on the car horn.