Archive for Humour/Satire

  1. LULLA-BA • by Josephine Orta 8 Comments

     

     
     
    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

  2. CHUPACABRA GO HOME • by Michael D. Turner 3 Comments

     
    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! [...]

    Humour/Satire

  3. GRAN'S WISDOM • by Ben Langhinrichs 15 Comments

    A flower sweet my lover gave to me
    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 [...]

    Humour/Satire

  4. ADDICTION AND DRIVING • by Allie Dresser 5 Comments

     
    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 [...]

    Humour/Satire

  5. SHERLOCK STUMBLES • by Guy Belleranti 12 Comments

     
    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 [...]

    Humour/Satire

  6. BIBLICAL PORTIONS • by Errol Nimbly 15 Comments

     
     
     
    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 [...]

    Humour/Satire

  7. FORGET THE NEIGHBORS • by Magdalen 14 Comments

     
     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 [...]

    Humour/Satire

  8. BACK TO SCHOOL • by Vicky Daddo 15 Comments

    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 school

    In recent years, Vicky Daddo, from Gippsland, Australia, has rediscovered her long-buried love [...]

    Humour/Satire

  9. THE HOTEL • by Glenn Lyvers 10 Comments

    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

  10. UNWANTED GIFT • by Ann Vevera 6 Comments

    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,
    little fool,
    uncultured heathen.
    Ann Vevera lives and writes in Ormond [...]

    Humour/Satire

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