By a lonely Irish ward, I heard an infant wailing “Mammy, they said they’re taking me away, For the people repealed the 8th To be…
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Funny and/or satirical poems from The Satirist’s archives.
I know, I know, it’s the oldest defense in the book: I was only following orders. The shoddy rationale of every garden-variety…
“Plath…reports that she’s used ‘the dregs of my inspiration’ to write six entries for a jingle-writing contest for Dole pineapple…. She also entered contests for…
Finally. Now Elian Gonzales can go to Florida by boat without feeling guilty. He understood beautifully that ideology was more important than cancer or justice…
[After Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress] Would you had clout enough, or ties; Your cringe, my dear, might not be so unwise. We would…
By Martin H. Levinson How do I love me? Let me count the ways. I love me when I rise at break of day,…
by Tim Koechlin 2 January 2018 The Confounding Election of Donald Trump There once was a racist from Queens, A predator – grown women and…
By Bruce Lader 21 July 2017 No excuses, I won’t take anything away from Death, he’s a true Champ, but I let him impose his…
By Steven Michaels 18 February 2017 Blue states hate me! Mick Mulvaney, where’s my inauguration band? Crazy eyed, party lines, we’ll tarry our four year…
By Bruce Lader 12 February 2017 Reserve far in advance for this restaurant named after the last Pyrenean ibex. Celia’s authentic wildlife atmosphere of real…
By Catherine Harnett 20 January 2017 You will make America Great Again! The poet of tweets, master hash-tagger. The giver of speeches, the riler-upper of…
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