Enter a tall man, pharaoh-onic, a figure of old Wearing a glittering royal headdress And surgical mask woven of gold Don’t be alarmed, he says,…
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Funny and/or satirical poems from The Satirist’s archives.
Ode to My Tesla By Dan Geddes With apologies to Pablo Neruda and Elon Musk Oh my Tesla! How I loved you! You, sexy, sleek…
by Kevin Higgins Since I got to Congress I say: #MedicareForAll with the seagull stare of someone – gender unspecified – supple enough…
Executions, if they continue, as they must, for public opinion demands them, and who are you to disagree with people like you, will be carried…
I’m Just Saying…. At the end of the day, the bottom line is: if we think outside the box and give 110 percent…
Watch the ‘poets’ guzzling booze grinning enviously (they never refuse) the book being launched has a title that is easy to wear ‘Sonnets from Spooky…
by Kevin Higgins after Spartacus Mills Back when I was over earnest and small I’d scoff that a postmodernist is someone who thinks…
by Jeffrey Meyers The acid age twists in its savage state The slaughter of Armenia at Lake Van His mother starving died within his…
America as a notion can be defined as a single word. Most days that word is: Meatloaf gasoline hamburgers Cher or Batman others days it’s…
by Abena Ntoso After “A Bone” by Nakahara Chūya Look at this, it’s my sky I’ve won it playing with firearms fireworks and hot dogs…
“Ireland must reassess military power” —Simon Coveney In the absence of Seamus Heaney, if Ireland is to be renowned for anything other than bog water,…
by Kevin Higgins No longer exactly young but still in a hurry to board the bus bound for what they call somewhere. Emerging poet acquires…
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