Harpo Poems

32 Bar Blues: A Spoken Word Poem

...32 Bar Blues: A Spoken Word Poem
 In the shadow of the neon’s dusty glow, Oh, the blues, got me cryin’/echoes of Otis Span whisper, “Why?” Champion Jack Dupree, a voice so true, I’m lost in the Bad ...

The Night Sedans

...

Lumbar ladies stroll by as the night sedans plunder the ho-dad hostels.
Looking to find nothing except another dozing cigarette beyond the cadenzas.
Another hot afternoon in suburbia with the r...

Duck Soup

..."duck soup"


quack quack

Harpo honks

canadian geese...

The Take My Wife Please Paraprosdokian

..."the take my wife please paraprosdokian"



harping
unlike
Harpo
honking

as if one
of a what
the flock
goosed

geese
i seem
to be
or not

to no
i am 
knowingly
continuously 

...

Dory, My Star of Yesteryear

...There I was in the 1970s
an impressionable sort of guy
then I learned about a lady
who when she sang I did sigh!

One of her albums just shook me
'we're children of coincidence
and Harpo Marx'...

Who's Left

...Lewis Carroll, Harpo Marx,
Albert Einstein, Eminem,
Paul McCartney, Judy Garland – 
These are just a few of them.

Add DaVinci and Obama,
Oprah, Jimi and Bill Gates,
Charlie Chaplin, Morgan Fr...

Whar Art Mine Fervent Zeal For Marx Brothers

...Whar art mine fervent zeal for Marx Brothers?

While figuratively trout fishing
for ideas to write about
analogous (hook, line and sinker)
idea wormed itself into mind with clout
moment of awar...

Wildflowers

...Wildflower field tells me beauty is greed
Blooms never at rest in clay pot homes,
            but in a field that sprawls to the river's edge
Wildflowers thick like curls in a Harpo wig
Hot color...

Ready Set Go

...Wrap in dry onion skins and dip’em right;
you’re going to get a big surprise.
It’s colored oval onion bliss;
something you wouldn’t want to miss.

Grab those, Sharpies now, my friend;...

Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im 1st Sentence

...Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, 
Harpo, Groucho, and Chico), whose 
acts (along Seuss iz Zacks Fifth 
Avenue) brought generations of 
laughter to Vaudeville, and then 
the Silver Screen adlibbed...

Rogues Gallery Counts Trumpeting Don As Prized Ace

...a limning rush of sinister 
     fiery angry flames bent avast
analogous copse, 
     where every limb bough, bore full 

     roaring furnace hot blast
spewing weighty incendiary volcanic 
  ...

Laugh - Fives

...Moshe, Larry, Curly,
Howls, cries, nyuks;
Three silly comic stars:
Smile, clown -- Cluck!

Chico, Harpo, Benny, Berle,
Moron grins, happy chins;
Crazy nutty comic kooks:
Funny jokes -- egads ...

America

...America
I´m here to bring you
What you don´t need
Another heartfelt poem
Another heartsick plea
Worth less than
Chewed gum
America I’m tapping
At your window
At 3 am
With a bag full of
Sou...

Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im

...Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico) 
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and 
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and ransacked skits 
zoid mater...

The Ow Network

...(A)	brown skin girl from Kosciusko 
                                             now from the world of Harpo (is)
                                                       hubristic in determination.
...

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