Wedding Burlesque Poems

Smithsonian Folkways Catalogue #709-300-25.

RASTA WEDDING VOWS

Gunna pledge mi soul an body in di spirit uh di trut.
Gunna stan an mek a promise an delivah u...

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Alexander Graham Bell

It was fine, quiet winter´s day I listened to distant noise, 
dogs bark -you can´t avoid this in the Algarve-
smoke from chimneys straight...

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When Miss Doubtfire moved in
to their heart,
she entered dragon tail swinging
Plastered smiling walls of bachelor resistance
got knocked down
at every single candlelight date demolition

And as the...

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Sir Harold, Knight, the valiant swain
Did call his Lady Nell.
He held her close and kissed her hand
And bade her sweet farewell.

"Forth from here I needs...

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From “The Last Land”


The years were fresh but the sea
Was filled with stomach cramps, and burning tips
	Against a psychic belly
The vibration of fishes
As they were...

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We received the invitation,
pretty card...and pretty late,

for I need deepest inspiration
to prepare such a debate

between my husband and I:
The cousin's his, and I am shy!

Shy...

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Contest poem near done
You think this is the one
Missing one line
Running out of time
Got an hour to mail
You’re sweating like hell
WRITER’S BLOCK!

The wedding all done
Reception...

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Leave it to the Scottish as the royal wedding nears
To unveil their latest, Viagra infused beers
A beer to stir the loins of the newly wedded...

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Pinch me,I do believe I'm in love
With the looker who's swaying up above
With his stuff up in the breeze
He does surely aim to please
As I...

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When wealth is determined by the number of guns one owns.
When a wedding party is a family barbeque, and the wife needn't change last 
names.
When...

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Got a great recipe
For cheescake...
Decided to make it once...
My experience was to show me
I really am a dunce...

First I had to whip cream cheese
I threw...

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Are you happy when you marry? 
Or are you shy and don't ask why? 
Things are never as they seem 

Do you mean people marry...

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