Satire

. Xanadu Revisited after "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Coleridge __In Washington aristocrats __ordain corruption happily: __here the Potomac River flows...

. Half the Night a villanelle My stomach isn’t working right. Bubbles, gurgles, twinges and sighs Kept me up for...

. The Revised Guide to Selling Adult Beverages  Dismiss the woke approach to advertising--- It’s mad and bad and far...

. The Number 165: Emily Hyatt A Cautionary Tale . Now this is a story that all those should heed...

. Note to a Sloppy Homeowner in response to C.B. Anderson's “Know How to Mow” Increasing rates are musts for...

. Target Gets Targeted A leftist agenda endorsed,Down customers’ throats it was forced.They now find their business is blighted,You could...

. Gaslighted Our friendship limped along for thirty years. I can’t say why. The scornful views you’d share Instilled resentment,...

. Target If you’re too young to take a marriage vow, Stuck at an awkward age that won’t allow A dizzy dose...

. Some Satirical Epigrams in hendecasyllabics (essentially trochaic pentameter with a dactyl for the second foot) . Complaint to a...

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. Matters of Class . Saying hello The modest o’s the most polite of letters; But is he facing up today...

. So Much for Legitimate Women's Sports Vladimir Gonzales, a young Italian athlete, With 28 inch biceps and a 68...

. The Devil Comes to Buckingham from Legends of Liberty: Volume 2 One day as Britons cheered their sovereign’s sight,...

. Why Can’t I Marry My Pit Bull? Why can’t I marry my pit bull? He’d make an incredible spouse,...

. September 9th 1901… A September evening in old Paris town, The time when Parisians let their hair down. There’s...

. Poet, What Dreamer Thou Art  "I feel more and more every day, that as my imagination strengthens, that I...

. The Shortfalls of Empirical Knowledge Sorry, Iowa. Each night is different from all previous And therefore not the same...

. A Right Royal Coronation Anon the pomp and pageantry will beam From London as King Charles III is crowned....

. The Number 151: Teatime in Cheam A Cautionary Tale . Now this is a story of two little girls;...

. Books Some say that books are obsolete, __Preferring new devices. But reading books is still a treat, __No gadget...

. On Binge-Reading Sylvia Plath Verdammte mirror-bee-eyes stare at you As you describe in depth colossal pain. You say too...

. The Sonogram Dodona housed the oracle of Zeus, And there the Greeks sought his prophetic aid (Whose force depended...

. The Window Seat “They don’t read poets till they’re dead.” That’s what my wise-guy father said. “They wait till...

. Sketches of Three Communistic Big Heads  . 1. Xi Jinping Who thinks this belly-flopping avarist is good except those...

. Bardic Bots Will Shakespeare has been rendered obsolete. Bill’s quillings are a patriarchal scandal. His iambs lack that fresh, progressive beat. Barred from Avon is his current...

. Green... Greener... Greenest...   a doomsday pantoum Zoom with raving saviors to Net Zero. Bewail our frail and ailing habitat. Become...

. Historical Negation A pen works wonders. Just ink in, scratch out. Rewrite what people learn about the past. Repeat...

. Senryu on Free Thought . I. As storied Kipling Is stricken from pupils’ tales I feel his burden . II. Arise...

. Acceptance Relationships are courses in which You should not enroll, If changing other people is your Pre-existing goal. ....

. Cryogenic Freezing from the conclusion of A Gallery of Ethopaths Let’s end on a deathly note To grab my...

. Three Denarii OBO For Sale: One ten-foot wooden cross. Good cedar, cypress with some pine. The owner selling at...

. The Faithful Who Have Chosen Not to Wait He rose and told us He would come again To supervise...

. A Screw ‘Em Sermon for Government-Anointed Experts “Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,...

. Reality Check __The bars we frequent have been raised too high, Not calibrated to the greatest common factor: __The...

. How to Write Contemporary Poetry a pantoum in free verse composition keep letters lower case. dump classical tradition then...

. Ex-Freedom of Speech In fact, most liberals don't support free speech today, And often see a need for censorship...

. Θαλῆς 2.0 In days of yore, Thales, the famous sage, Went out on a stargazing walk and fell Straight...

. The Very Best Business by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi First I was...

. Gossip “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of...

. Evolution I can’t run fast or jump high anymore. Mistakes I make I never made before. Some maladies and...