Best Cartoonish Poems

Through my window I watched it float gracefully by
An eloquent specimen, a rare butterfly
Wings painted black and the brightest of green
The most breathtaking creature I...

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the serene people whose ease of manner
once made him yearn and confabulate
are laughable cartoonish and piteous now
could have been much worse he said
as his last...

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Minimal involvement with extracurricular activity at Methacton
   limited to playing Baritone Horny within the band
   though marginal interest existed to maintain...

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My pen pleads 

Lonely nights offer moments of silence
and one dish suppers where candlelight seems a waste
Seated with pen in hand, I smooth the ruffles...

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I don’t mean to bust Archie’s hump.
He meant well, the simple old chump,
   But damn, how buffoonish
   His views, so cartoonish,
In...

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“The hurrier I go,
the confuseder I get.”

Picture a poster prominently placed
in the classroom of one who
teaches grammar and literature.

Its confused, cartoonish character states
(using wretched grammar)...

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Ànd I thought to myself how I do, stand within astonishing disbelief

When I behold once more the manifestation of his maligned and malignant face....

Like somehow...

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There is a hilarity in this canvas
Not often found in Van Gogh's art
And recognizable faces
Also unprecedented

They might be sneaking contraband liquor
Outside away from the prying...

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A city sight I sometimes spy
Floats, barely moving, in the sky.
It seems cartoonish in its shape
And causes everyone to gape.

It circles slowly, like a shark,
To...

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Bullets

 Bang! The cartoonish noise echoes
Underneath those fluorescent
Lights. Everyone is silent, even the
Librarian, who is usually shhh-ing everyone
Even though the bullet did not touch me,...

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I am not saying this just because
he is my grandson but
He is the most athletic person
in the family
and he is
four

I am not saying this just...

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when i arrived on earth
I must have seen the rain through the window
it was saturday in the hospital room
busy women in white
fluttering snowflakes in my...

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Polly Purebred was a bit too stuck up for my taste.
But Underdog was always there, with a heave and a haste.
I remember being shocked when...

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It is crazy to be this compulsive about so many things.
I draw out three or four cartoons a week that I paint.
It may take me...

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I paint myself daily, sexy and cartoonish
Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit sexy.
But I camouflage that it is me.
I pretend it is not.
I paint me over...

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