Archive for Humour/Satire
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LULLA-BA • by Josephine Orta
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Rock a banana
On a green stalk
When the wind blows
They sway and they rock
When the bough breaks
Tarantulas fall
Let’s move baby’s cradle
Away from the wall
Josephine Orta lives in San Antonio, TX with her husband and medicine cat Peep. She does website technical support during the day and free-form research at all hours. Her internal artist is [...]
Horror, Humour/Satire
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CHUPACABRA GO HOME • by Michael D. Turner
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Humour/Satire
The wood-woses watch from their red-wood trees,
Sasquatch, they are North America’s wildman of the wood.
Favorite mystery of two generations of Americans.
They watch this newcomer, this interloper,
steal into their territory, slide into their space.
Mutilating sheep and cattle, sucking livers out of dogs.
What–footprints aren’t good enough for this, this
monster-come-lately?
Corpse strewn farm-yards and kennel runs.
No clean, neat crop-circles–no!
Goat-sucking! [...]
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GRAN'S WISDOM • by Ben Langhinrichs
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A flower sweet my lover gave to me
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To tell me of his love and ask my heart.
I begged him wait until my heart was sure;
Then ran to ask my Gran for her advice.
I knelt beside her bedside and I asked
Her blessings for the match I thought to make
I showed the flower sweet, but felt a [...]
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ADDICTION AND DRIVING • by Allie Dresser
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Humour/Satire
It nearly reaches my lips
My favorite Addiction
Lights flare up behind me
I palm the highway contraband
No one cares at home
Indulge till you’re plastered
But here it’s a crime
It slips in the glove box
As I pull out my papers
Proof I’ve paid dues
Will he even care?
My face is askew
Still wearing midnite sins
I beckon a tear
Unbutton some more
Men cave for [...]
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SHERLOCK STUMBLES • by Guy Belleranti
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Humour/Satire
Drawers are pulled open.
There’s a mess on the floor.
The homeowner paces,
Then he lets out a roar.
Holmes makes a deduction,
“Burglary, I presume.”
“You’re wrong!” shouts the owner.
“It’s my teenager’s room.”
Guy Belleranti‘s work has appeared in Woman’s World, The LA Times Kids’ Reading Room, Big Pulp, Scifaikuest, Everyday Weirdness, Horizon Magazine and many other places. Some of his [...]
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BIBLICAL PORTIONS • by Errol Nimbly
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Humour/Satire
Here I stand at a sink piled with dishes;
Oh, I’ll do them– It’s what my wife wishes.
In our home, that’s the trade
For the supper she’s made–
Tonight it’s five loaves and two fishes.
Errol Nimbly’s muse appears as a libidinous Limerickian leprechaun. Errol works less and less as a library custodian these days, as his fledgling detective [...]
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FORGET THE NEIGHBORS • by Magdalen
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Humour/Satire
Forget the neighbors
behind their petty fences
(gapped-toothed and
shadow-boxed silhouettes
in the moonlight) casting
disapproval with the whiplash
resilience of fly-fishermen
up trout streams in the spring,
if, first taking care to ensure
suitable concealment lies
close at hand,
you should choose
to stand barefoot naked
on the patio pavers still warm
in the fog misted heavens
of your own backyard
reciting rhyme and verse
with full-throated lyricism
upon a summer’s eve [...]
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BACK TO SCHOOL • by Vicky Daddo
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chalkdusting pencilbusting
fractions and equations
historytelling sportysmelling
kids of all persuasions
tuckshopping attitudecopping
teens and their confusions
pimplepopping fashionswapping
learning’s a delusion
skirthitching gossipbitching
boys and their erections
sportplaying musicswaying
gotta get perfection
emoangsty rappergangsty
fully sick or way cool
kids the same, it’s all a game
welcome back to schoolIn recent years, Vicky Daddo, from Gippsland, Australia, has rediscovered her long-buried love [...]
Humour/Satire
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THE HOTEL • by Glenn Lyvers
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717, 719, 721,
Ice machine,
723, 725, food tray.
Half eaten lobster, strawberries, oyster shells.
A woman screams behind the plain door–
It’s comforting
at least someone is screaming.Glenn Lyvers is winner of Midwest Literary Magazine’s Best Poet Award (2009) – and a Wolfson Award winner in short fiction by [...]
Humour/Satire
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UNWANTED GIFT • by Ann Vevera
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Every
square, stitch, color, pattern,
they all matter.
A wide spread,
faded and fatigued,
it still holds its rank.
Handed down
to the young
with the
assumption
it’s welcomed.Sentimental nonsense,
it choked
a new mother’s lullaby.
“Hidden between the threads,
there were dust mites,”
she said.
“They bit my baby bloody.
The old rag, it just had to go.”Peace be with you,
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little fool,
uncultured heathen.
Ann Vevera lives and writes in Ormond [...]

