WHAT  IS  A  MIDDLE   NAME  FOR?

By Dean Beaty  9/25/08

Can somebody tell me, what’s a middle name for?

Except to put on the sign on a door.

If I ever heard mine now that was quite rare.

It usually accompanied a yank of my hair.

Almost never heard, that is as a rule.

Except when dad yelled, “I’ve fathered a fool.”

What is it good for, it just gets in the way?

Nobody uses it day after day.

But now with the girls it’s a whole different thing.

Their middle name comes off with a bang.

Take Mary Ann Mosley, now isn’t that fair?

Like flowers in spring or curls in their hair.

Just Mary Mosley sounds flat to my ear.

Now just add the Ann and it’s a whole ‘nother fare.

But for the fellows, who needs that third name?

Yet sure as you’re born it’s there just the same.

Take Richard M. Nixon, what good did that do?

Millhouse didn’t help him with the press and its crew.

Or John D. Rockefeller, do you know what D. means?

And neither do I, it’s useless it seems.