#AmericanWriters
Children aren’t happy with nothing… And that’s what parents were creat…
A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than a pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often please…
How wise I am to have instructed… I am about to volunteer a definiti… Just as I know that there are two… I know that marriage is a legal an… Moreover, just as I am unsure of…
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge. It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue, And it is...
Any hound a porcupine nudges Can’t be blamed for harboring grud… I know one hound that laughed all… At a porcupine that sat on a splin…
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond
Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him. Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!
The song of canaries Never varies, And when they’re moulting They’re pretty revolting.
The hands of the clock were reachi… In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid fam… Is table talk in hell. I name no name, but hell’s own fla…
Now another day is breaking, Sleep was sweet and so is waking. Dear Lord, I promised you last ni… Never again to sulk or fight. Such vows are easier to keep
Consider the auk; Becoming extinct because he forgot… Consider man, who may well become… Because he forgot how to walk and…
My friends all know that I am shy… But the chipmunk is twice and shy… He moves with flickering indecisio… Like stripes across the television… He’s like the shadow of a cloud,
Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed.
Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendents Outnumber your friends.
Enter, breath; Breath, slip out; Blood, be channeled, And wind about. O, blessed breath and blood which…
