Tag Archives: Humor

If It Works For Shakespeare, Why Not Rock?

We have so many electric guitars

And so many chimps in the zoo

And yet humankind

Has not had the mind

To try out combining the two…

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In One Ear And Out The Same Ear

If I ever try to be president

I’ll be a republican household name

Because if the other sise doesn’t like me

They don’t know how to aim.

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#PoetrySports

Today I ran a 5K race

And lost at pickleball

So my writing motivation

Is hovering around “none at all.”

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Heaven Forbid!

I’m sensing some commonplace themes

That is fear of fascist regimes

Where government’s shrinking

And people start thinking

And grocery receipts don’t cause screams

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Dear Weirdos

To the girl with funny yellow shoes

And the deaf guy who would sign the blues:

I hope you never have to choose

Between yourself and “normal.”

To the folks who love their face tattoos

And the ones who never drink the booze:

I hope you never, ever lose

Conviction just to be formal.

To the historians and dreamers,

The philosophers and schemers,

The poets and the memers

And the “just-plain-downright-odd”s:

I hope you never lose the spark

To make a name or leave a mark

Because few of us can parallel park

And fewer still are gods.

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Precedent

The man who has never seen an oven mitt

Will call you a fool

And flip you off with burnt fingers

After grabbing a turkey from the oven bare-handed

So maybe don’t care too much

About what other people think

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There Once Was A Person From Right Here…

Tonight we play D&D

And pretend to not be me

And instead be a wizard

Who’s also a lizard

And does not write bad poetry.

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The Little Things

You know when you’re eating the pasta

That’s shaped liked a little wheat shell

And they stick on your tongue while you eat them

And you feel like the whole world is well?

Or how ‘bout when you’re dehydrated

And your pee is all yellow and bright

And the pee-water gets kinda cloudy

And you flush and it all feels alright?

I like that just-popped-a-zit feeling

And that “earwax is washed away” calm.

It’s just me? That may be, but I’m hoping

You find your own commonplace balm.

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Burn Those Calories!

I once had a buddy named Roddy

Whose fitness routine was shoddy.

His plan, as he stated,

Was to just be cremated

And end up with a smokin’ hot body.

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For Reference, The Question Was “Why Do You Need To Visit Congress”

There once was a venomous fly

That, with one touch, could make a man die.

It’s untraceable and yellow.

I’ll release it, dear fellow,

And that is my whole answer why.

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