Funny Burlesque Poems

Some things are royal
others so prosaic

and then there's everything else

You bring your own biases to the choice

BUT the question then arises:

do these (even these)

belong to...

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      Chubby cream grubby against white ice
      Hungry somewhat clumsy polar bear heist
  ...

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Here some few jokes to crack your ribs:

I remember how my sister discovered her jogging talent, when she was chased by the fierce dogs, she...

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“Insults are like the flow of
 water, you get many
 from your parents when 
you became a poet 
or an author.”

“Try to do what you...

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Don't you just love it when you set off an alarm,
Accidentally of course,
Which causes  one no end of alarm, 
With bleak thoughts of how...

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Garments

Opened the wardroom’s door, suits and jackets worn
so long looked like sad copies of me.
Gave all my clothes to the salvation army, which gave
them to...

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Quatrain 1
Sitting alone at nadir in serpentine sloth;
it is placed on the breeding typo.
A slight failure comes out of the emptiness and makes
successful that which...

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Death from above 1953

My uncle
Was seaman
Died in Marseilles
A pig on a balcony
Fell on him.
Mother said
He died at sea
When a mine
Struck his ship.
A likely explanation
That served
His...

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It is the ultimate in Irony,
And it is everything short of funny,
As people give up the chance of honest money,
To sour streets to the point...

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If I were a comedian in this life,
Today would have been my worst nightmare,
With nothing funny happening on my way to writing this.

The pigeons left...

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A Friday of Gayness

Today, I drove to Faro town wanted a dinner of tunny steak
with onions at a café, I frequented fifteen years ago.
The place...

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I do not see the poem yet I tried to post last night.
Is it too soon? The why's not clear, I feel emerging fright,
and I'm...

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They say O she's too this or she's too that, but they don't know And / Or rather too ignorant to even see what she...

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Why haven’t I been writing poetry . . .
do I really have nothing to say?

Nothing even though it's the time when time
is an avalanche halfway...

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Juan (Johnnie) Avocado Seed
By George W. Clever-----15 September 2020

A migrant boy in California 
His only toys were avocado pits
Making castles at the Rancheria 
In the...

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