Best Takedown Poems

In the theater, Ms. Patti LuPone
Asked some patrons, who’d certainly known,
To adjust what did look
Like not quite by-the-book
Masks on faces so noses weren’t shown.

They refused...

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In an hundred years...
Everything around us will be changed,
And everybody will be dead,
Yet, something will continue...

Will it be, as my radical leftist brother predicts,
The final...

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Birds in midheaven flying all around
Soaring high then gliding down
Gazing with hunger upon the town
Instinctively knowing up from down
Observing unbridled spiritual breakdown

White horse and rider...

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Pay attention! 
Important chicken poetry coming up, 
though no binary fantasies shall deconstruct 
into raucous biddy enjambment. 


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Grandfatber always kicked Grandmother's chickens away...

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Llfeproof, I see your gauntlet thrown down
Is my life rough enough to smash your crown?
Are my depths so deep to make you drown?
If I leave...

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my red-faced neighbor
wrestles with her umbrella
voila! a takedown...

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What life...
What life from the sea...
What life from the sea, has a right?
What life from the sea has a right to live with me?
Shall I...

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Frank Zappa
Was always my musical hero
Ever since I first heard his music
Back in 1974

He blew me away
With his musical genius
His satirical wit
His mastery of rock
Classical...

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A balloon entered U.S. airspace near the Aleutian Islands on January 28. 
After crossing Alaska, Canada, the balloon entered U.S. airspace above Idaho. President Biden...

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I flung free my terrace garden pane
Assured that wherever my eyes feign
Beauty expects this worn soul to bare
A rhyme to wish rare birds do I...

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