The Manhattan monkey accent was mumbly, marble mouthed and mediocre at best. Yeah, we dare you to read this poem 10 times fast.
Poetry
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The Fairy’s Cut: Nursery Rhymes Rejected by Mother Goose
Bang, bang, black rifle, have you any kill?
Yes sir, yes sir, three traps full.
One for a mink coat and gloves in the fall.
One for the leather pants I find at the mall.
patent pending
Pull out “this fat little poem with acne and crooked teeth” when “the men and women have broken into herds / a cocktail party taboo, an unmitigated disaster / as the men shot gun cans of beer in the garage / laughing, roughhousing, a raw, greasy, bond between them / with no girls allowed pinned to the tree house.”
Vacuum
For a serious mess on the carpet, I said, the clerk answered We don’t rent those anymore, my car outside illegally parked, towed and on the bus schoolgirls discussed blowjob techniques and smoking, at home I watched my dog attack a neighbour’s three-legged cat, carpet covered in fur and across the street an [...]
A Select Bibliography of William Shakespeare’s Plays in a Series of Haiku
Excerpt:
1593 (estimated)
The Taming of the Shrew. (Theatre unknown)
Kate’s really moody,
Maybe PMS? Meets match,
becomes housewife-type.