Tuesday, August 30, 2005

MAN OF LA MANCHA

Don Quixote
Wore his finest
Duds whenever
He visited
Dulcinea
In her duddy
Dugs.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

AT THE CINEMA

The cinephile
Always went to
The cinema
Dressed in his
Cinnabar suit
In order to
Brighten up the
Ciphers that were
Moving across
The silver screen.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

WHERE WAS PLATO?

Whenever Socrates was at home
Xanthippe played on her
Xyster instead of her xylophone.

Friday, August 19, 2005

ODE ON IRAQ

Let Sir Bush
Make the Sign
Of the Cross
For his Iraq war that
Was a double-cross!
Let that big smiling Dick
Inspect his oil-stick!
Get Rumsfeld to go to war
With his crooked arms that swing across
The Bloody Radioactive Floor!
Make certain that
Miss Condi Rice
Knows a mushroom
Cloud from her ass!

Thursday, August 18, 2005

THE WELL-OILED MACHINE OF WAR



The glittering merry-go-round
Will go round and round
'Til the crimson blood of war
Shall no longer confound.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

TO MY WIFE

Lupia, when thy Squier dies
Close thou up thy poet's eyes
And his last kiss, let it be
Given by no one but thee.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

ATOMIC ANGST


Although
The A-bomb
Is
Abominable
It
Is
Not
Aboriginal.

Although
Abortion
is
Abominable,
And
Ab Ovo,
It
Is
Not
Inevitable.

Abraham
Did
Not
Advocate
Abracadabra.

Monday, August 15, 2005

SCAPEGOAT

The Goat
In Goa
Wouldn't
Gobble
The
Golden
Goblet,
But a
God and
Goddess
Drank from
A
Goatskin
Somewhere
In the
Godi!

Friday, August 12, 2005

IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

The fifty
Fiends
Were
Fighting
Over
A fife
In a
Fiery
Field
Rife
with
Green
Figs.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

THE HIEROPHANT FROM HIBISCUS

Hiawatha &
Wild Bill Hickok
Were hiding in
Hibernia
When a higgledy-piggledy
Hieroglyph
Got some
Hideous hiccups
Beneath a
Hickory tree.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

FIGHT

On Pitcairn Island it was a pitch-dark day
When a pistolier's heart went pitapat
Just before he had his piteous pitchout
With Mademoiselle Pithecanthropous.

This pitchy pitfall
Was About a fight
Over some pita bread,
Who was to eat
And who was not,
Who was to starve and
Who was to be fed.

On Pitcairn Island it was a pitch-dark day
When a pistolier's heart went pitapat
Just before he had his pitious pitchout
With Mademoiselle Pithecanthropous.

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Sea Life

My
Pet
Jellyfish
Loves
To
Eat
Jelly
Beans
And
Jelly
Rolls.
Jesse
Left
On
A
Jet
With
Jesus
Looking
For
Jerusalem
Artichokes.
The
Night
Is
Jet
Black.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

HARE KRISHNA


The hard-nosed
&
Hard-of-hearing
Harlequin
Was searching for
Hare lipped harlots
In hard-hearted
Harems
Filled with
Hard knocks
&
Hard ons.

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

ZOO STORY

Giraffes don’t
Wear girdles
And Giotto &
Giorgione
Didn’t paint them.
The gipsy moth
With gigivitis
Wore gigham
And played gin
Rummy with some
Girl scouts
While Girl Friday
Played the gittern.

Monday, August 01, 2005

EXAMINATION BY EXCALIBUR

The ewes were pouring water from their ewers
When the Evil One
Without ex cathedra or exaltation
Evoked
In exasperation
That pouring water from ewers
Should be an exact science.