Screwball Poems - Poems about Screwball

the prismatic Self

...
gauntlet of mirrors transparency personified
transparency personified when the curtain falls
in an arena of quick sand and impromptu judgement

the stage was well set though actually
it presen...

The Dupable wanted the Despot

...Let’s crack down
On the cracked brained crackpot
Lunatic ideas that are certifiably crackers
Screwball cuckoo nuts and such ways
Sure, his is crafty and cunning
A nonsensical narcissist
Mad in ...

Screwball Romance Espinela

...So full of laughter my prince chides,
‘This tale is a screwball romance.
Do you enjoy deadpan perchance?
I was swept into paper tides.

They remind me of us besides,
today what else have we to ...

I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks

...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,

(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made...

Memories of a Childhood Home

...My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the bean garden, and to sled the slope in Winter white.

eyes delirious
dazzled, ...

Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks

...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe

My utmost humblest apology
for inducing the following
cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium,
but ...

Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age

...Though I wrote no book 
attention summoned to look 
at following--->>>

Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age

predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ...

Screwball

...Contemplation
 
Resolve the unanswered problem gone
Overmighty is the task, for one who lacks the courage
Sever is the lack of self-knowledge
Extraordinary is the failing of others feelings
 
...

Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age

...Impossible mission, nonetheless
eschatological, diabolical, critical...
dire straits betokens armageddon.

Come Tuesday, November 3, 2020
mandatory voting obligation to oust
horrible malevolent...

Sassy Sobriquets Schooled Sissy Spindleshanks

...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious skinny scruffy scribe

Scathing, scolding, screaming,
scorning, searing, sing,
sociopathic sarin soaked skewed
squirt, sputtering, squa...

Oscar-Ku 11 -You Can'T Take It With You

...screwball comedy
Kirbys versus Sycamores-
Pulitzer Prize play






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

A Great Fall

...Johnny was balancing on a high wall
He tripped pretending an entreating fall
with a big bump on his head
wife shook a finger and said
don't know whether you're brilliant or screwball


10/19/2...

Tell Me What You Really Think

...You sat and looked at me as if,
I had lost my mind.
You told me I was crazy,
That I was unrefined.
The kind of life I offered
That you could not accept.
I think there’s just a few lines
That I...

Omlet

..."OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
      cast of characters:
      Julius Caesar
      A Roman Teenaged Kid
      A Roman Guard
      Brutus
      A bunch of Caesars Gir...

Wanted To Prevent Trump

...Wanted To Prevent Trump


Had heard that Trump was a lousy landlord
To rent a room from him could not afford
Every woman he met had an instant crush
Long orange always liked to brush and brush....

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