Short Shtick Poems

Joe be nimble
Joe be quick
Joe is a plagiarizer
Who stole his shtick 

Joe be simple
Joe be sick
Joe can’t remember
Which reporter to pick...

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while walking
seeing before me
a rock sticking out
of the ground suddenly

i stumbled
on to something
that blew my mind
as if the sky wasn't blue

enough...

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Lipstick on the collar his only flaw
From the late night lover he just saw
Washed his shirt real quick
But forgot his shtick
He'll burn in Hell when she sees him raw...

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Like a zombie at a town picnic
Scarfing brains in my room, like a shtick
My costume I offed
For I retched and coughed
Mom said, "That was the ultimate trick!"

October 30th, 2019

9
9
5
5
9...

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Politics
in Hyde Park
was at the end of a shtick

FDR’s mouthpiece
a cigarette holder
suspended over
his spinning wheels

Pearl Harbor
a puff of smoke

It was a new deal
It was big

The peace pipe
signaling
W A R

USA
evened the score

...

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What’s the shtick with coffee?
Why can my love, grow so cold, so fast?
Before microwaves, we’d keep to a tiny cup at a time
with no creamer. A little bit of the grind to warm us up-
a love so strong, kept on the fire. Cool beans*

2/14/203

*Sounds good...

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taking an
ordinary
stick and
stuttering
didn't do
the trick

sssstick

so this
time i
took the 
gag from
my mouth
pronouncing

sssshtuck

what the fah
kidding i did
it again then
realized that
i needed to be
juggling at the
same time and
out came

shtick...

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I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no

I Can’t Get No Satisfaction/written by Mick Jagger/Keith Richards

there is an old man named Mick
who uses music as his shtick
when he tries to get some action
he seems to get no satisfaction
even though he thinks he’s pretty slick
...

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