Where’s Jimmy Webb when you need him?
sometimes I wake up
in the middle of the night
and wonder
is the Wichita Lineman
still on the line?
The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 7
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The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 6
Father Bragg
he was a humble priest
until his altar ego
took over.
Herd Impunity
what the Republicans lost
when Donald Trump lost.
Aesop gets the call
Aesop!
Get your ass over here!
We need a fable
ASAP!
The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 5
Sound Bite
Angela Merkel
Meghan Markle
vowels apart.
Extinction
Thesaurus Rex
never lost for words
gone before his time.
Fallibility
he was just
another cardinal error
afloat on a papal sea.
When the Going gets Heavy, the Verse gets Light
My Friend Norman
my friend, Norman,
hasn’t changed one bit
since this pandemic began
if there’s going to be a new norm
it certainly won’t be him.
Deaf Shepherd
no sheep bleat
no sheep dog bark
the silence of the lambs
but still my flock is tended to
you can’t pull the wool
over these eyes.
Cistern
he’s been the same damn tern
since the day he was born.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 3
The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 3
he was a white rapper
she was a gift wrapper
at Crate and Barrel
they loved that whippersnapper, Jordan Klepper
and the affable, unflappable Jake Tapper.
The challenge over at dverse is to write a poem that ends in a rhyming couplet.
The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 2
The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 2
Last mango in Paris
last tangerine in Tangier
last farrago in Flanders
the last, the final frontier.
Last rutabaga in Tobago
last almond in Algiers
last marionette in Mar-a-Lago
the last, the final frontier.
The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 1
The Unbearable Lightness of Verse 1
blessed are the cheerfully inept
blessed are the relatively smart
blessed are the Johnny Depps
blessed are the Kevin Harts.
