Vanilla DeVil
...(To be sung to the tune of "Cruella DeVil")
Vanilla DeVil, Vanilla DeVil,
If she cannot bore you,
then nobody will.
With her, you’ll never
ever have a thrill.
Vanilla, Vanilla
She’s bett...
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Categories:
humorless, song,
Form: Lyric
Brouhaha
...The reunion that caused all of the zany brouhaha
From a family kerfuffle with one humorless raw flaw
It all went down quite swiftly, in a quick split lickety
And ended outside in the hedges most...
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Categories:
humorless, family, funny,
Form: Couplet
A Life of Uncompleted Jobs
...It has been a short - lived career,
Former ones tried on Black Maria;
To soon start bearing A Pariah,
His story the same in Syria,
Which he had judged land of Moriah,
Jesus Christ leaving for Sh...
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Categories:
humorless, absence, allusion, career, change,
Form: Rhyme
When Profound Feels Sacred
...My youngest
of three AfricanAmerican adopted sons
has profound nonwhite
nonstraight
nonverbal cerebral palsy.
Profound
in at least not being privileged
or victimized
by internal LeftBrain d...
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Categories:
humorless, health, integrity, nature, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
What Was That About
...Truthfully,
and kinda depressing,
I can't "manage" anger
any better than fear
and contagious distrust
and nearly constant anxiety
and chronic depression.
In nonviolent communication practice...
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Categories:
humorless, culture, earth, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Competitions In Disregard
...Am I unhealthy and unsafe oppressed,
suppressed,
repressed,
right-brain negatively depressed?
Not really all that:
competitively left-brain impressive,
first through last impression
newswor...
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Categories:
humorless, depression, desire, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Public Preacher of More Money
...He tightly sermonized on Harmony,
Neatly anchoring it in More Money:
How none of it unleashes Acrimony
And could crush A Holy Matrimony.
Soon, he alighted on Ceremony
But still built it on More ...
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Categories:
humorless, adventure, evil, money, women,
Form: Rhyme
The Whale That Swam the Thames
...It was thought the young whale was pregnant
confused as she was and out of her depth.
They waded into the river to help,
floated rubber rafts to buoy her up.
Marine experts posited ways
to kee...
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Categories:
humorless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
From the Sciences I Pulled Out
...From the science I finally pulled out,
After my homework unleashed a shout:
An All-Times The Strangest Graph;
To our Physics Teacher, “Perfect Chaff…”
And it made the poor gentleman weep;
Aw...
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Categories:
humorless, career, confidence, confusion, education,
Form: Rhyme
Weeping and Trepidation
...Copious tears flowed gently in the dire disaster
but we're not in brutal excess.
Doom occurs precisely in a proper time
when su...
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Categories:
humorless, analogy, appreciation, conflict, imagery,
Form: Monorhyme
Growing Green Cultures
...Inside my elegantly intuitive,
but SupremelyWhite Male neglected,
and cooperatively We-managed RightHemisphere,
Grows a nutritious nuancing
and nonviolently
nonverbally communicating
win/win ...
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Categories:
humorless, earth day, green, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Speaking of Common Goods
...What I wanted to say
the other day
when exalting healthy kindness
for potentially freeing us
from Straight White Men's great meanness
Costing Earth's Green Commons
and charging disinterest ag...
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Categories:
humorless, health, humor, irony, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Summer Day, 1983
...Grotesque
tall
neurons
sprout into the sky
screaming anarchic omniscience
Green
gold
pulses
in
incandescent eruptions
Hot
humorless
jagged
rocks cut through
omniscient anarc...
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Categories:
humorless, dark, nature, summer, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Embarrassment
...Last week, I walked up to a woman,
My arms encircling her un-notified waist,
After stiffly pointing out to some man
His not- funny miscalculations from childish haste…
Only yesterday was traili...
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Categories:
humorless, character, emotions, hate, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Feeling Rememory
...I noticed just yesterday
while glowering about something else
now already
once again
forgotten...
I seem to have lost my good-sensed humor
along my stumbling
isolating internal say
Toward...
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Categories:
humorless, anxiety, appreciation, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
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