Short Butt Of A Joke Poems

Those who were laughing thought it a tease.
The butt of the joke though felt ill at ease.
     It was banter to them,
     but he felt condemned
and bullied, though contrary their pleas....

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You are today 

Worth to you a dime, 

To me a nickel

To her a penny

  A house 30 million 

    A man a house

     The past a Man


      Earth the future

       The future nothing....

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Limerick: Once a Baron born near Basingstoke

Once a Baron born near Basingstoke
Dreaded being made (the) butt of a joke
Yet he built his castle
Shaped as a sharp whistle
Winds coursed through laughing like Marma-Duke.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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dear change,
i've seen you here before
scratching scoundrel
itching with mange-
the undomesticated mutt.
charmed, finessed (i am
the butt of your joke) (you
are the ash to my smoke)
dear change,
loop swoop pull & 
push- peering thru the
burning bush, all
teehees & cracking
leaves; oh dear
change, i only want to 
ask, will you share
whatever's in your
flask?...

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We have only a moment
till our present is past
for only in memory
can anything last

why we have photos
descriptive notes
recordings we make
thinking somehow the 
moments can be stored
to take

but minds fail
and technologies have
glitches
just pass a whisper around
then compare while laughing
in stitches

wondering if life
is the butt of some joke
in the end all moments
going up in smoke...

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