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Posts published in “Poems”

Funny and/or satirical poems from The Satirist’s archives.

Plath’s Father

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…

One Lexus May Hide Another

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)…

The Solitary Mower

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…

Worshipping the Golden Calf

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…

In the Company of Napoleon’s Men

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…

Pro Noun

She or he, or them or they; We’re all the same in some small way. We crazy laugh, and then we cry As dreams unmet…

Old-Fashioned Love Poem

I will love you in the morning I will love you in the night I will love you when you’re loving I will love you…




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