The Pope Replies to the Ayatollah Khomeini By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
My Dear Khomeini: I read your fourteen thousand dollar ad asking me why the Vatican waited all of these years to send an envoy to complain about condi ...
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The Author Reflects on His 35th Birthday By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
Make me Tennessee mean Cobra mean Cuckoo mean Injun mean Dracula mean Beethovenian-brows mean Miles Davis mean Don’t-offer-assistance-when Quicksand-i ...
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Badman of the Guest Professor By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
i u worry me whoever u are i know u didnt want me to come here but here i am just d same; hi-jacking yr stagecoach, hauling in yr pocket watches & mak ...
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American Airlines Sutra By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
put yr cup on my tray the stewardess said 40,000 feet up. (well i’ve never done it that way. what have i got to lose.) i climb into a cab & the woman ...
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Old Joke By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Radiant child of Leto, farworking Lord Apollo, with lyre in hand and golden plectrum, you sang to the gods on Mount Olympus almost as soon as you were ...
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Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll - Giggle Poems
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. And, as in uffish thou ...
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A Young Lady of Lynn By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
There was a young lady of Lynn, Who was so uncommonly thin ??? That when she essayed ??? To drink lemonade She slipped through the straw and fell in.
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Poor Old Lady By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
Poor old lady, she swallowed a spider. Poor old lady, she swallowed a bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, She swallowed the spider to ca ...
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I Eat My Peas with Honey By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, But it keeps them on the knife.
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Quick! quick! ... By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
The cat's been sick. It is too late, The carpet's in An awful state. It's all in vain, For she has licked it Up again.
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“A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett ...” By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett, Built a bridge for the good River Bumpett. ??? A mistake in the plan ??? Left a gap in the span, But he said, “Well, ...
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“A peanut sat on a railroad track ...” By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
A peanut sat on a railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter. The five-fifteen came rushing by-- Toot toot!???Peanut butter!
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The Bear at the Dump By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
He’d rock back lightly onto his rear paws and slash open a plastic bag, and then his nose— jammed almost with a surfeit of rank and likely information ...
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On A Diet By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
Something like the body of the poet’s work, with its pale shadows, begins to pare and replace the poet’s body, and isn’t it time?
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Underwear By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
I didn’t get much sleep last night thinking about underwear Have you ever stopped to consider underwear in the abstract When you really dig into it so ...
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Don’t Let That Horse . . . By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
Don’t let that horse ??????????????????????????????eat that violin ??? cried Chagall’s mother ???????????????????????????????????? But he??? ??????? ...
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Discrimination By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
I’ve got pretty used to them In these past twenty-five years. I don’t mind if they sit next To me on streetcars, or eat In the same restaurants, if It ...
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Ave Maria By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
Mothers of America ???????????????????????????????????? let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to ...
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