Pets Burlesque Poems

Captain Tabby Longtail stands
Like Ahab at the helm,
His Jolly Roger flying high
Above his salty realm.
He’ll keelhaul your scurvy carcass
If you give him any bull,
And he’ll...

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Yankee Doodle
had a poodle,
and its name was Tony.
He fed this dog on fish and chips
and lots of macaroni.

Yankee Doodle
lacks a poodle.
Now he has a terrier.
Every...

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"50 Words for Poe: Rasputin"



The Rat was buried in the Pet Cemetery
His name was Rasputin

She had been fond of him for some time
feeding him morsels...

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Jessica! Come over here to the fence!
Hi. What's up?
I discovered my dog can talk!
Really? What's she say?
C'mere Lucy! C'mere! Say "I love you."
Bark!
See? She said...

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DR. SHUSH'S POETRY CONTEST

This contest isn’t as easy as it looks
The topic is Dr. Shush, his life and books
Send in your un-rhymed senryu
Or enter your...

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Suburban Spring	
(4.15.10)


	Springtime fills the air, 
			like laughing gas.
		(Or maybe more like whiskey.)
The suburbs are drunk on the nectar of it's dawn.
	Middle-class houses 
			are starting to...

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Magical Malediction of Exasperated Want,

Passion Fruit splayed Eyes of the World

Are Cumming

For Christmas Charcoals

And Incinerated House Hold Pets

(Under Trees.)

Have you Gotten your Ticket Yet?

Don’t want...

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Twenty Twenty Dollar Bills,
Sticking out of twenty jacket pockets,
Of Twenty Zoot-Suited Mexican Hoods

Leaning on Twenty 1940's cars,
In Twenty different shades,
With Twenty Female Mexican Cuties,
In twenty...

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Someone is watching me,
Not that I'm paranoid,
As you can see
This stalking person
scares me,
Somewhere else I'd
rather be,
Electronic bugs I
find all over,
Even hid in my
dog's butt, poor...

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years ago a friend
upon refurnishing her home,
gave to us a sofa and some rugs
what she didn't tell us then
that she included in this some bugs!!

seems...

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