If someone put a gun to my head and forced me to teach a yoga class, I’d play doom metal music and have everyone imagine:…
Posts published in “Poems”
Funny and/or satirical poems from The Satirist’s archives.
(a parody of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost) by Thomas Locicero Whose car is this I think I know. He…
by Tim Koechlin (with nods to Lennon, McCartney and the CDC) Oh yeah, I’ll tell you something I hope you’ll understand When I’ll say that…
by Michael Gessner It’s good you died when you did, or you would have lived to see your darling daughter’s demise in her prime, with…
By Dan Geddes On Christmas Eve Santa was making his rounds, Traveling the globe by leaps and by bounds, Arriving in Washington until…
One Lexus May Hide Another By Linda Boroff (With acknowledgements to One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch and Caesar’s Gallic Wars, interlinear translation)…
My catalogue of pals stretches beyond Bush, Trump, and the Emperor Bokassa’s personal crocodile. For I am everywhere, and always have been:…
Yeah, I’m gonna wear sweatpants to the Gol’ Corral I’m gonna eat ‘til I can’t no more I’m gonna wear…
by Marcia Seabury Behold him, single in his yard, Yon solitary modern neighbor! Mowing and murmuring by himself; Absorbed in all his labor. Alone he…
He had made it a molten calf: and they said: “These be thy gods.” —Exodus 32:4 Desperate, despised and dumb, a dancing bear, With Musso’s…
(With apologies to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”) I. April is the cruelest month, when youthful hearts with passion…
A cavalry officer who isn’t dead by 30 is a coward. – Napoleonic cavalry general Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle (1775-1809) I. Ney Marshal Ney swears (like…
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