Gertie Poems - Poems about Gertie

Aunty Gertie may be an ol’ girly But that doesn’t imply she can’t be flirty The gleam in her eyes Comes as a surprise As aunty Gertie is three times thirty. Gertie lives a life full of joy and fun She’s an angel delight to everyone She can do the splits As well as high kicks What’s more is that Gertie can’t be outrun. Gertie...

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Old Gertie was a gentleman’s lady If she deemed to do anything, it would be shady We followed her career and were shocked to see The kinds of things she would do here, there and beyond the sea. She was a dance hall girl, and a pirate queen. The bawdy songs she sang were seen as obscene. She carried a pistol,...

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Resolute opinionated Little Miss Gertie is barely thirty But as set in her ways as a scorched shirt burned dirty. We used to try to get her to loosen up a tiny bit. But she has no humor or pliability, and she can be a snit. So we decided to leave her alone and lo and behold. She met a...

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Here he comes now the dance hall girls said. When he comes to town, someone ends up dead. We call him Lazy Eye, but he is a Jeckle and Hyde. Some ran into the saloon to cower inside. He walked with a strut that made the girls swoon. He came in wearing a hat that glowed in the moon. He ordered...

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-- Re: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Rue de Fleurus #27, Paris -- What would Gertrude. What, Gertrude.What, Gertie?Have thought.Have thought what thought?Thought thought driving,forward,remorselessly.Remorseless Remorse? Forward.Never reverse;no reverse.No.No remorse. Remorseless,spurning reverse,seated.High!Seated high in Auntie.Then in Godiva seated. Looming.Enormous. Looming enormous.Unsinister presence. Certain presence.Definite.Definitely not sinister. Positively looming;enormous in brown. Brown, in brown corduroy,driving Paris. In Paris,through...

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