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POINTY BIRDS by STEVE MARTIN

The god of love

Should one day see

The many ways

I pleasure thee.

For if indeed

Such god there be,

He’d learn a thing

Or two from me.

 

The Right Hon. John Wilmot

 

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Old Glory still is flying proud

Proclaiming still the message loud:

The Lord has smiled upon this land

From Yorktown to Afghanistan.

 

Incompetence? Deceit? Demise?

Do you believe these Fake News lies?

America’s now  safe from flak

Since Donald Trump has got its back.

 

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UNTITLED (by Gerry Hamill)

‘If you’re aristocratic,’ said Nietzsche,

‘It’s thumbs up, you’re OK. Pleased to mietzsche.

If you’re working class bores,

It’s thumbs down and up yours!

If you don’t know your place, then I’ll tietzsche.’

 

 

 

 

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from SUMMER WITH MONIKA (by Roger McGough)

away from you

i feel a great emptiness

a gnawing loneliness

with you

i get that reassuring feeling

of wanting to escape

 

 

 

 

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THEIR SEX LIFE  (by A. R. Ammons   1926-2001)

 

 

 

 

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TO SOMEONE WHO INSISTED I LOOK UP SOMEONE (by X.J. Kennedy   1929- )

I rang them up while touring Timbuctoo,

Those bosom chums to whom you’re known as ‘Who? ‘

 

 

 

 

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What is it men in women do require?

The lineaments of Gratified Desire.

What is it women do in men require?

The lineaments of Gratified Desire.

 

(William Blake 1757-1827) (The actual William Blake, and not the Johnny Depp character in Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch.)

 

 

 

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A post-structuralist lay dying

(Son membre à la main),

Which he said, “I’ll die a happy death

Because I understand.

I understand how things are shown

(For instance, mis en scène),

Which I deconstruct constructions there

Constructed on the screen.

I‘ve toured and taught and lectured

(They all say I’m quite a talker),

Which I’ve dealt with everything

From Avatar to Riddley  Walker*.

But invite no ackers** to my wake

(They always criticize me),

Which my corpse should lie face downwards

So my friends will recognize me”.

 

 

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** Full-time members of the academic community free to enjoy all the benefits of tenure.

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