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Once again, yours truly takes poetic license

...Once again, yours truly takes poetic license.

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin
whereby...

Categories: rickles, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Where Have all the Comics Gone

...
  ~ To the tune of:
      'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' ~
  
     Where have all the comics gone
       Long time passing
     Milton Berle and Alan King
       Long time did their thing...

Categories: rickles, dance, farewell, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric

April 20 Standup Comedy The Trump Insult Comedy Tour!

...April 20—Standup Comedy – The  Insult Comedy Tour!

How and why he 
Remains so popular 
With some Americans
Remains a mystery.

He remains me 
Of an old-time insult
Comedian, Don Rickles
 
...

Categories: rickles, corruption, political,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Don Rickles

...The late great comic legend, Don Rickles
never failed to deliver belly-busting giggles

He always served his dish of comedy raw
His insult jokes stung, yet made one...

Categories: rickles, celebrity, humor, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew

In a Pickle

...My wife is even worse than Aunt Bee when she makes pickles.
She gave some to some celebrities and that's what killed Don Rickles.
When people eat her pickles, they turn green and puke.
Then they w...

Categories: rickles, food, funny, humor, sick,
Form: Rhyme

My Rare Disorder

...I have a rare disorder that causes me to see everyone in the cast of any submarine movie as Don Rickles. Every bloody person is Don Rickles. Once saw a submarine movie wherein a woman was saved from ...

Categories: rickles, boat, funny, humorous, ocean,
Form: Prose Poetry

Just a Few Clerihews

...Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these.

Mohammad Ali
taunting with poetry,
his opponents he'd zing
as he danced 'bout the ring.

Graham Kerr "The Galloping Gourmet"
oft...

Categories: rickles, fun,
Form: Clerihew

Joseph Rickles

...Joseph Rickles
Liked dill pickles
To Rickles their wonderful taste was delicious
What they did to his face was simply malicious....

Categories: rickles, humorous,
Form: Clerihew

The Comics

...The Keystone Cops were funny
Chaplin, Keaton, and Fields too.
Laurel & Hardy and Will Rogers
were some of the names we knew.

Who can forget the Stooges
or all the pies we saw them throw.
Who ...

Categories: rickles, dedication, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Hello Dummy

...
A fabulous career in acting and stand-up comedy
all started in nineteen twenty-six in New York City.
At an early age, you appeared on stage for many to see.
For a couple of years, you left y...

Categories: rickles, dedication, tribute, new york,
Form: Rhyme

Pickles and Tickles Craze

...There is a comic known as Don Rickles

   Whose withering wit our ribs he tickles

      Some people take great offense

         When skewered at their expense

            Leaving them as d...

Categories: rickles, funny
Form: Limerick

Comic Relief

...The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the Stooges, 
Or all the pies w...

Categories: rickles, dedication, funny, people, thank
Form: Rhyme