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Showing posts with label dog eating contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog eating contest. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2013

Calvin Trillin Style [Week's News Poem, January 18, 2013]

Calvin Trillin Style [Week's News Poem by Khakjaan Wessington, January 18, 2013]

This week's iambic news must rhyme the trite
With facts and names that fade when out of sight.

Did you hear about the trillion dollar mint?
An after dinner platinum coin we print
To bribe the sober headache aftermath
Of spendthrift ways; the pain of laughter's wrath.

Oh Calvin, any kid can write like you;
So why do you when verse's jobs are few?

Perhaps that's why the choppers never strafe
The people in your poems, why they're safe
Ensconced in paper sheafs inside your mind
Despite the desert heat, jihadikind.

I know your silly sort:
Quick to retort—
Both rapid
And vapid.

Well maybe we can talk about the guns
That don't work as Shel Silverstein-style puns?
I hear that Congress wants control.
A stack of parchment shall patrol
The empty depths of human wit,
Because the poets cannot fill it.




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Sunday, July 04, 2010

GOD BRESS AMERICA [Twitter Found Poem, July 4, 2010]

GOD BRESS AMERICA [Twitter Found Poem, July 4, 2010]
Tweets+Edits=#twitterfoundpoem

DO YOU LIKE SEXY GIRLS? THEN CHECK THIS OUT!
SEXY GIRLS in a Dog Eating Contest! DO YOU LIKE vodka?
THEN CHECK OUT Cat flavored vodka!
Cat flavored vodka will stop the buzzing inside your head:
it will set YOU psychopathic. YOU wander around
the County Fair tonight with your bottle of vodka
and even SEXY GIRLS Eating dogs can't stop
the buzzing inside your head. even when SEXY GIRLS
play some patriotic tunes on the piano and worship
and appeal the Blue Angels YOU can't stop dogs
from getting Arrested. YOU can't stop dogs from crying
Havoc and slipping themselves, even when SEXY GIRLS
play some patriotic tunes on the piano and eat 54 dogs
at the County Fair. YOU will keep drinking Cat flavored vodka,
drinking Cat and Dog Soup for the Soul. and when a patriotic
buzzing starts Playing inside your head YOU will Cry
"GOD BRESS AMERICA" and let slip the dogs of war!



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