Best Screwball Poems

"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
  ...

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"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
  ...

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GABLE’S ETERNAL LOVE

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a...
After all, my true love fell with wings!
No twig nor heifer could compare…

This screwball comic welcomed dawn,
dauntless...

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Silence hushed, a crowd in awe,
Only crickets could be heard.
Under the spell of the Babe,
They looked to where he pointed,
Hoping to see a home run....

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Right? Fine. Finished.
During what avail, what time.
Shake this, crisps on bread.
Ultimo Dragon, wrestling and fights 
Likewise, Mr Artist.
Package this, like fries.
McDonald's, eat much.
Yum, yum, delicious...

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He was nuttier than a fruitcake, 
He ate dry fruits, and candied fruits.
Some thought he was a screwball.
But from the likes of things.
He was very...

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"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
(Or: Rules Are...

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A Day with My Barber


First he overcharged me the cut ‘fare’
As a fine for shaving my greying hair
  Then I learned his screwball motive;
“Growin’...

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You are the gum at the bottom of my screwball.
 
You are the action figure in my happy meal.
 
You are the x-ray glasses from...

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screwball comedy
Kirbys versus Sycamores-
Pulitzer Prize play






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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Johnny was balancing on a high wall
He tripped pretending an entreating fall
with a big bump on his head
wife shook a finger and said
don't know whether...

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My bleary eyes delicately opened to the view
Of the cold, hard, unapologetic grey wall.
I’m in jail? Now the meet and greet. 
“Hey, is anyone else...

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"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
  ...

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You sat and looked at me as if,
I had lost my mind.
You told me I was crazy,
That I was unrefined.
The kind of life I offered
That...

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"411's MISINFORMATION"

today I sat at a table
with two females: 
one to
my left and one to my right.
the female to my left pulled 
her frozen McFlurry...

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