Tag Archives: Travesty

Challenge Accepted

And so I lounged on a borrowed couch

Devoid of inspiration

And instead of making the difficult choice

To use my imagination

I went onto my phone to search

The internet for an answer

And I recalled why random prompts

Are worse, perhaps, than cancer.

But undeterred, despite misgivings

I shall now attempt

To write what poetrypromptgenerator.com

Gave me without contempt:

There once was a sanctimonious hand-wringer

Whose neurotic pedantry gave a metaphorical finger

To those who deign to carouse

With those of osseous brows.

Some compare me to him as a visual dead ringer.

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No Kings? No Thanks

There once was a man in a political seat

Whose rhetoric inspired much political heat.

Because of this protestors did amass across the nation

In a movement called “NoKings” which is a hot recent sensation.

Alas, the hockey players in Los Angeles are sad

And the Sacremento basketballers also feel mad.

I for one support our Californian athlete friends

And wish the players happiness until this protest ends.

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Ted Talks Nowadays

Maybe if we hugged

Pterodactyls every day

We would have world peace

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Cheese comes from a can

Also from mammal udders

Therefore cows are steel

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Climate change is bad.

So is hitting little kids.

#ChangedMyLife

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Yes, I Owned A Walkman. Why Do You Ask?

Let me walk you through a moment

Of what I call “being me.”

Instead of streaming music

And paying a monthly fee

I plugged in my computer

From around 2008,

Pressed power on at 6:15

And it booted up by 8:00,

Loaded up my iTunes

From before it was an app

Then uploaded some files

That will make my right foot tap,

Plugged in my phone and synced it

For an hour and a half

Then enjoyed my music free of charge

With a joyful millennial laugh.

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An American Epiphany

I’m 0.02 football fields tall

And I weigh 153 basketballs.

My waist circumference is the cube root of 120 teaspoons

And maybe the metric system isn’t bad after all.

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Give It To That One Friend Who Thinks Their Job Is Important

I want to read a novel

Where the fabled chosen one

Goes on a quest to do something

Like kill the god of the sun

And when we reach the ending

There’s a fabled chosen two

And there’s no sun god after all

And they don’t know what to do.

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Dad Jokes Just Got Nerdier

Knock knock. Who’s there? Joe.

Joe who? Joe Mom! LOL!

My poor future kids…

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“SPF 50” Means 50 Seconds Of Safety

“Put on some sunscreen,” they said,

“Or else you’ll get all burnt and red.”

Now my flesh is peeling

And I have the feeling

That I have been grossly misled.

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The Fundraiser

Silver-hairs in folding chairs

Look on an empty stage

Seeing each other and waiting for

Songs from a different age.

Performers enter all dressed in black

And make a brassy sound

All with the hope these rich old folks

Will help them stay around.

Monarchies, Shakespeare, the elder arts

Rely on good old cash

And silver people are prone too oft

Return to dust and ash.

And so we ask you younger folk

With all your real hair

To listen to some new old songs

And learn, we hope, to care.

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Truth Hurts

We are all mermaids

Who evolved to live on land

And not sing as much.

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