Short Bazooka Poems

bazooka gum
folded comic strip
the smell of summer



posted on June 22, 2018...

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I know a man from Nkandla called Zuma
He has an offspring like tuna
He thinks shower
Has the power
To repair his broken bazooka...

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This squirrel is the best
Mess with him and you will rest

He has a bazooka and a gun 
If you see him you will run

If your running and you fall
He will catch up, and help you will call...

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Here's a cool word, it's a “lollapalooza”
From ancient times just like “zippity-doo-da”
You young'uns have yours
But old folks more mature
Have our own cool lingo like a gum called Bazooka...

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Here's a cool word, it's a “lollapalooza”
From ancient times just like “zippity-doo-da”
You young'uns have yours
But old folks more mature
Have our own cool lingo like a gum called Bazooka...

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Here's a cool word, it's a “lollapalooza”
From ancient times just like “zippity-doo-da”
You young'uns have yours
But old folks more mature
Have our own cool lingo like a gum called Bazooka...

Read More

Here's a cool word, it's a “lollapalooza”
From ancient times just like “zippity-doo-da”
You young'uns have yours
But old folks more mature
Have our own cool lingo like a gum called Bazooka...

Read More

Here's a cool word, it's a “lollapalooza”
From ancient times just like “zippity-doo-da”
You young'uns have yours
But old folks more mature
Have our own cool lingo like a gum called “Bazooka”...

Read More

Here's a cool word, it's a “lollapalooza”
From ancient times just like “zippity-doo-da”
You young'uns have yours
But old folks more mature
Have our own cool lingo like a gum called Bazooka


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Pink as a baby’s bottom.
Pink as 1960’s Bazooka Bubblegum
Pink as Barbie’s Dream House
Pink as a 1959 Cadillac with chrome tailfins.
Pink as a perky, pretty, popular, pizzazz-y petite preteen.
We nicknamed her “Pinkie” which made her laugh....

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Wads of Bazooka Joe under my seat
     cigarette smoke in the john

   Butting in line for some 'mystery meat'
     giggling at boys with a 'hard-on'

   This was the kind of mischief we made ~
     before handguns replaced baseball card trades...

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...keep our metaphysics warm
( From : Whispers of Immortality/T.S.Eliot)


Keep our metaphysics warm
in dorm sheet our handmaiden
work like monsters bazooka
Slit our conscience and alas
masturbation is a metaphor
Hammer and chain God is lost
Only interpretation, function
of power not even truth, fly....

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I hope your pen bleeds
And ruins your tweed
Stains your skin
Gets infected
Makes you ill
And you spill your jello
Get a scuff
On those new white shoes
I hope your birthmark
Turns out to be shaped like Kalamazoo
I hope I get kooky
When I get mad
And write silly stuff
Instead of firing 
A bazooka
At your Humvee...

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Prudence rode her neon lime green bike down to the corner 
Right up to the library
Entrance, she wore her bleach blond hair spiky short
Talking too loudly and popping her Bazooka Joe
Every time the librarian glared at her
Next to the magazine rack she
Covertly studied the science section hoping no one noticed her focused
Eyes...

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Poem Becomes A Novel

So, I am a novel and not a poem
That is what I said and I am never wrong!
So get that through your head!
You say I am a good for nothing poem
So What!  So sue me!
With a bazooka aimed at the head 
One might change their mind
Question?..... What am I now?...
A poem or a novel?
I hope you get it right this time...

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This fashion is in, that one is out
    narrow waists with baggy knees
  Wide lapels and razor-thin ties
    Who knows what will be

  Slicked-back ducktails 
    top off muscle t-shirts
  hoping to attract
    coy smiles from a skirt

  My friend and I dress real dumb
    bowling shirts plugging Bazooka-Joe gum
  The girls see us, giggle, and flee
    Who knows what will be...

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Hi, Santa, I want a pile of North Pole snow
and I’d sure like to know if it’d be too hard
to make my present a fulltime body guard?
My big brother treats me bad, he’s so mean,
and I know he wrote you for a guillotine!
He does gross things with spit from his tuba
and always shoots me with his bazooka.
Please, a guard on the scene until I’m eighteen?


... CayCay Jennings
December 15, 2017...

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The Cinnamon Bazooka Bun is an ardent dough
a pound of sticky heat that dissolves 
the tongue in an orgasm of butter.

There is an uncertain pantless fervor here
in the parked Impala, a craven pursuit of the 
spiral core, winding mounds of sacchariferous frit

A cop drives by--and we shrink in our non-chalance
our frosted, reunion-phased glaze betrays no chance
that something untoward is not happening here....

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