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Posts published in “Poems”

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

Pro Ball

  Here’s how it works: It starts in the pickup games In the schoolyard or the park Where everyone can see That you’re a player…

The Philosopher-King of Häagen-Dazs

By Andrew Kuhn 28 August 2016 (With apologies to Wallace Stevens)   For if betimes this polymath of paregoric fumbled for a formula as apt…

Vox Pop, Vox Trump

By Martin H. Levinson Anderson Cooper sticks a mic in front of my face on Central Park South in New York City, cues the camera,…

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

By Martin H. Levinson If we all owned guns we’d get faster service at the DMV, be listened to more respectfully in the office. Muggers…

Unrequited, Or A Dog His Doggerel

By William Craig Rice Since you won’t have me as your man, Imagine I’m a dog Who’s always gaga to see you And get taken…

Bleistein at the Royal Ballet

As boorish as it sounds I have to say That there is An element of silliness In the classical male ballet. I mean What exactly…

High-Tech Saint Nick

        High-Tech Saint Nick Saint Nicholas arrived in Amsterdam, aboard a shiny new ship, looking old as Father Abraham, after his long,…

Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off!

By David Alpaugh 16 September 2014 Obama says ISIL, the Media ISIS. Both sides agree that the world’s in a crisis. ISIL! ISIS! SCHMISIL! SCHMISIS!…

An Atheist’s Lament

By William Craig Rice I  Why do I marvel when the faithless stray, when friends whom I supposed completely safe against belief go falling for…

A Psalm of Sarah

A Psalm of Sarah By Becky Garrison 27 May 2014 1 The atheist is my enemy, he knows nothing. 2 I make him lie down…




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