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The Asses of Parnassus

Short, witty, formal poems.
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Shelley Sez

Poets are the unacknowledged
Legislators, and they know it,
Yet no legislator claims to
Be an unacknowledged poet.

-Chris O'Carroll

  * 22 Apr 2021
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Couplet on the Couple Making out Across from You on the Subway

That is no clean, well-lighted place,
But some, I think, do there embrace.

-Daniel Galef (with apologies to Hemingway & Marvell)

  * 21 Apr 2021
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Sndbrg

Fog's feet are cat-like.
On haunches, ready to strike!
Bored, fog takes a hike.

-Paul Jones

  * 20 Apr 2021
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Sparkle

Such expert crafting - poetry as grace
And eloquence. Your book's a jewelry case.

-David D. Horowitz

  * 15 Apr 2021
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"That Be The Verse"

While cuddling with our infant lad,
My friend hummed Larkin in his ear,
Yes, that one, crude and mean and sad--
Baptismal song of pain and fear.

But Larkin's right, it has begun.
Our son was born the usual way:
We fucked him up right from day one
And handed misery on that day.

We'll fuck him up some more, I guess.
We're sappy when we should be stern;
We need to fill our loneliness.
Then he'll move out and serve his turn.

-Evan Gurney

  * 14 Apr 2021
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Professor Spooner Goes Vegan

Duck fat?
Fuck dat!

-Roderick Bates

  * 13 Apr 2021
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Editorial Comments

This verse you wrote is pretty bad.
It's not depressed. Good verse is [S:sad:S] dark,
Or angry, or at least confused.
And then this meter that you [S:used:S] employed?
Your meter is a problem too.
I'd give it up if I were [S:you:S] the author.
But worse than meter, you've got rhyme.
Rhymed poetry's a waste of [S:time:S] effort.
I don't like rhyme one little bit.
So go away. Your work is [S:shit:S] crap.

-Bruce McGuffin

  * 8 Apr 2021
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How Catullus Might Revise Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"

"...da mi basia mille, deinde centum/...conturbabimus
        illa, ne sciamus..."   ~   Catullus 5

The art of kissing each one seeks to master;
on many lips such kisses can be spent,
so one or two misspent is no disaster.

Give one away each night, or give a cluster.
They replenish when they all are spent.
The art of kissing can be quick to master.

Then practice, open-mouthed, at kissing faster:
in a bedroom or a car or tenement,
or running. And a miss is no disaster.

My mouth, misplaced, had strayed, the last, or
next-to-last, of kisses, wayward went.
The art of kissing sometimes lacks a master.

I closed my eyes. The world was dark and vaster
than I guessed, colliding as I bent,
I missed your lips, my first - not last - disaster.

But kissing you a thousand times was drill
I love - my claiming needing practice meant
the art of kissing makes it hard to master,
though it might look like (Do it!) like disaster.

-Royal Rhodes

  * 6 Apr 2021
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Philip Larkin Tries for a Vaccine Appointment

Another long computer sesh
As I attempt to land a day
Before the bloody end of May:
Log in, refresh, refresh, refresh...

-Melissa Balmain (after The Trees)

  * 1 Apr 2021
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SAT Analogy (Words Can Sometimes Hurt Me)

Stick and stone:
Breaking
Bone
::
Lawsuits:
Taking
All you own.

-Will Begley

  * 31 Mar 2021
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