Sad Parody Poems

Once before my bedtime, nearing, which I dreaded, fazed and fearing,  
Stories mother would read me before she closed and locked my bedroom door...

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You can gossip, you can talk
Having the time of my life
Ooh see that girl, watch her moves
Dig it she’s a gossip queen

Friday night and the...

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Some sad lonely evening, I will meet a lover
I will see my lover across this dim saloon
And seeing her I’ll know, I’ll know even then,
I’ll...

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I ain't gonna walk no more, no more
I ain't gonna walk no more
Got in a wreck and broke my neck
I ain't gonna walk no more....

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Well! Damned Nation…
Oh. Hey! You there!
You are in a rush, 
I see.
Can you point me to the holly-caust?
Where the burn of sulfur flares? 
Ah yessss,...

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For Langston Hughes

What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir: 
What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir:
They'll never give me...

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Something stupid
Something new
Something sorrowed
Something blue...

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i’m good when ok
       and ok when not too sad
         ...

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This time I blew it, I really blew it
First lost us the House, now the Senate’s gone too,
I'm caught in a spiral, that I'll admit,
Not...

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A parody of “The Last Waltz” song written by: Barry Mason and Les Reed
One Last Ode
I wondered if I’d write ever again
Inklings of my heart...

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You may be nobody, 
But I am somebody
Together – we make two
A somebody and a nobody too

How sad to be a nobody!
How lonely and blue
To...

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What did I do, what Karma is this
Where is the power, the glory, the bliss,
I didn't sign up for this constant pain,
I'm losing my mojo,...

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Yes, I’ve done it once again
Removed a seeping cancerous pain,
Soleimani’s dead and gone,
The devil’s agent, the Ayatollah’s pawn.

Long the source of all things bad,
Few if...

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By invitation from a trusted friend, 
a medium intervention took place and I went.
The building set in the thick forest by a shimmering lake,
some broken...

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My baby left me on a summers day, right before the draft snapped me up.
I want you I need you! I love you! I cried...

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