My catalogue of pals stretches beyond Bush, Trump, and the Emperor Bokassa’s personal crocodile. For I am everywhere, and always have been:…
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Funny and/or satirical poems from The Satirist’s archives.
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…
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…
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…
By a lonely Irish ward, I heard an infant wailing “Mammy, they said they’re taking me away, For the people repealed the 8th To be…
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…
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