Short Turks Poems

Istanbul was once known as Constantinople
Turks had a problem with too many syllables
So from five to three
Saved two, do you see
Worry not, my illness is non-transmittable...

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Whoa! My cabinet's 'not diverse enough!'*
This identity stuff is really tough!
  Greeks, Poles, Nepalese
  Turks, Finns, Congolese
You do it, Kamala ~ You're no creampuff





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*'Biden's Cabinet not Diverse Enough'
  was the top story on Chicago news
  stations at 5:30 p.m., Dec. 09, 2020....

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There was that bloke: 
That war poet?
Rupert Brooke
He apparently said; and I quote

I suddenly realised that 
The 
Ambition of my life has 
Been - since I was two - to go on a military expedition 
Against the Turks

That's a bit much, isn't it?
Like a cup of
Oniony tea

I will beat Thomas 

And if you got into a car
The instructor wouldn't
Say 
To you, "Well
What do YOU think?"...

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