Long Lampoon Poems

“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...

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A definite bonehead moment

since revised when das scribe 
made laughing stock of himself 
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem 
December twenty eighth, 2022).

A retrospective account
revisited courtesy the following 
honest to dog doe eyed, 
doofus dopey dilemma
allows,...

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When I was a lad and somewhat brash
I often read the poems of Ogden Nash,
whose humourous rhymes on many themes,
was motivation for my own poetic dreams.

Later when I took to reading Edgar Allen Poe,
more of...

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A poet's work [like journalists] is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, to start arguments, to shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. - Salman Rushdie

Don’t think...

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Yukon just coon sitter me a copacetic, energetic, ironic language lover (English is ma lingua franca late mother tongue), who waxes poetic, but tall so one babbling, creaking, and dabbling dis arming marine naval (gazing)...

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True add verse situation,
     whereat me mission
     trans send dint state didst ache
after yours truly nearly
     did nearly break
chassis 'pon took drastic
 ...

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Aah... how great the taste of water...

After lounging in bed until
late morning/early afternoon
we (the missus and I) felt restless
as garden variety buffoon
or think chrysalis itching

to escape encased within cocoon
nevertheless, she mustered hubby
long since retired dragoon
late...

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Write from...

Write about the order of date and time
Write about the confusion of our thoughts

Write about the deafening buzz of doubt
Write about drying tears

Write about the repetition of today in tomorrow
Write about silent cries

Write about...

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Le Squirrel Sat For Le Painter

His canvass set
And oils based,
He zeroed onto her providence.
His lips miming
Rhode Island here
Big Apples there.
She scowled her impatience.
Her eyes dismissing his.
Although,
Him noting her dark chocolates,
Sweet looking,
Cloaked as balls of fire,
And...

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Brothers Levi, Jordan, Matthews, Joe and Jedden, 
You were sheer shocked as did Sister Hussein
That even this day we can still adjure, argue, advocate,
And advance active activism for the rule of law stolen,
As did Dr...

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Upon the aged wooden stage of life a show of Burlesque did played
a grand ballet of lampoon, mockery and imitation fell as the curtain was raised
a farewell performance of Lady Petite and her partner Sir...

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Feel the pulse of the spouse in a house
You thought you knew
Until your mouth turned into the louse
You became as fantasies ate you up anew.

Guilt on stilts divorced
Sombre sentiments in the mind
Imbued with dark thoughts...

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Oh man! Going in a golden palanquin
Ever thought, what is going on in those minds?
Of those, who are bearing your burden?
And those hundreds following your path, blind

Why they ignore their aching shoulders, and
Laugh at your...

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*Image of The Big Bang Theory giphy by CBS. 

Coronavirus: COVID-19

A knock upon my chambered door, silence foregone, it goes ignored,
Too feeble I, coldness instills, lain I awry e'er filled with chills,
Vice convince spree goes...

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Most Authors and Writers of any kind
would want to avoid the sharp, biting mind 
of that mordant and poignant Satirist
whose words of ridicule, and taunting interest
lampoon the very heart and soul
of even the most ardent...

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A mystery within the cottage sublime                             ...

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   We had Wonder Woman, 
and The Rocky Horror
 Picture Show.
   We had MASH,
 and Hawaii Five-O.

   We had Bonanza,
And the Nanny and 
    The Professor.
...

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Another whistling train speeds by in midnoon,
the jeering lad waves at pensive passengers
absorbed in serene, not adverse feelings;
his youth is vibrant and ready to lampoon!

Daises, jasmines and violets are gently lulled 
in their wild and...

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I dreamt I said, ‘Hullo, Fellow’ on her pink plumage pillow
When from my blue sky grew and flew a sentimental swallow
That told me to fold my arms and grow calm because it didn’t matter anymore
As...

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Are you a poet, as some folks say,
who can with your words, portray
emotions that can make a reader cry?

Are you a poet, as some folks believe,
who can with your words, have us grieve,
for a friend...

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Listen to the music of centuries
Remembering looking toward peace
"We must disentral ourselves"
The congressmen
Big black tires
Big black men,black suits
Siphoning your GRIT
The corporate war profiteers
Who are they as bats at night
Chameleons in all natures
Camouflaged at appropriate times
Demagogues!the...

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In the Barley Tavern I’m in tune,
having a couple before it’s noon.
There was no-one there to talk to,
‘cept for the barman Ken, and who,
joined me to share one or two,
until a couple of blokes in...

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Some years ago, when TV was new,
My family had become addicted to,
(With a fervor you would not blieve)
Radio programs on Sunday eve.

Jack Benny's Show was one of these,
He moved to TV with great ease.
Our Sundays...

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is it normal to sear the soul
to let the dormant hate control

Is it normal to mar the mind
with daggered words dipped in "unkind"

Is it normal to hunt the heart
with gleeful zest to maim a part

Is...

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Creativity given to a pen
moved by a thoughtful man,
divulges ideas with a steady rhythm...
not minding noises, just writing what pleases him.


Find him dreaming on a deserted island in the Adriatic Sea,
laying on a soft blanket...

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