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to be or not to be,
that is the question un
doing democracy
burdened by(what has been

the magic)8 ball knows
the answer,so do i
the magic answer is
better not tell you now

$ummer Apple tree$:
     iPhone$ ripen in the $un—
          firstfruit$ of knowledge.

                             *

                          asleep
                        and fall
                      777)       
                    6     ­         
                  5                  
                4         ­            
              3                       
            2                          
          (1                            
        i count them                 
      (starry starry night)      
    through the night sky      
  (fly into heaven)                  
woolbirds fly high                

❤⛪
🙋‍♀️🙋
👩‍🏫🧑‍🏫
👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓
👩‍🍳👨‍🔬
👰‍♀️💒🤵

🏢🐕
🤰👨‍🔬🐕
👼
🤱👨‍🔬🐕
🌳⛺
👶🤰👨‍🔬🐕­
👼
👶🤱👨‍🔬🐕
🌳🌳🛖
👶🧑‍🦲🤰👨‍🔬🐕
👼
👶🧑‍🦲🤱👨‍🔬🐕
🌳🌳🌳🏚🐈
👶🧑‍🦲👩‍🦲🤰👨‍🔬🐕🐈
👼
👶🧑‍🦲👩‍🦲­🤱👨‍🔬🐕🐈
🌳🌳🌳🏡
👶🧑‍🦲👩‍🦲👨‍🦲🤰👨‍🔬🐕🐈
👼
👶🧑‍🦲👩‍🦲👨‍🦲🤱👨‍🔬🐕🐈
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🏠
👶🧑‍🦲👩‍🦲👨‍🦲­🧒🤰👨‍🔬🐕🐈
👼
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🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🏤
👶🧑‍🦲👩‍🦲👧🧒👦🤰👨‍🔬🐕🐈
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🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🏰

👴👵👨‍🦱🧔👩‍🦱🧑‍🦱👨👩🧑‍🦰🐈
⛪❤

🪦🐕

🏡
🧸👦👩🧔🐕

🌒🕕

🛸
🏡💤
🧸👦👽
🛸🪐

🧸👦👽
🤖👾👺👹👿👻🧚‍♀️🧜‍♀️🦄🧞‍♀️🎅
🧸🤯👽

👽👦🧸🃏

🌒🕕­

🛸🌏
🏡💤
🛸🪐

🌞🕧
⏰🛌

🧸👦🃏

cool morning:
     garbage truck sings
to a steel wool sky

𝓐𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓛𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓸𝓵𝓷'𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓶𝔂 𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮,
𝓝𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓘 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓶𝓪𝓭𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓶.
𝓘 𝓵𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓽 𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓮𝓭
𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓭𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭.

𝓟.𝓢.  𝓘 𝓯𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓮𝓭.

when is is all there is where isn't was
and all the sky's inside a blue balloon
and everywhat is known to be because
too good is God to be believed too soon

then breathing breath doth verily become
(in spite of all the sayers saying nay)
a joy exploding all the threats of doom
since every doomsday dies before its day

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Physician, jab thy sinfu' sel',
An' thereby sairly fare thee well,
Since jabs make well (I heard thee tell)
                  When health is sparse.
Go to the de'il an' go to hell,
                  Ye lyin' ****!

Ye de'ilish tadger, kin of Cain,
The Hippocratic Oath ye've ta'en
(Ye villainous hypocrite!) in vain
                  An' spoilt yer name,
An' a' for wealth and warly gain;
                  An' that's a shame.

The ******' lord o' ******' flies
Has twice ten billion zillion eyes,
An' craves to eat the flesh that dies,
                  An' sees ye clearly;
But God, who sees yer sprite (surprise!),
                  Still loves ye dearly!

Repent an' pray, ye rocket man,
For Christ forgives (it's in His plan)
An' could forgive yer whole ****'d clan
                  If ye'd but ask.
Perhaps ye can, perhaps ye can
                  't perform the task!

The cedars mourn,
And Uruk weeps.
Bereft Ninsun
In sadness sleeps.

Gilgamesh, god
And man and king,
Hath come to dust
Like everything,

Hath come to dust
Like everyone.
O Gilgamesh!
Where hast thou gone?

Shamash doth mourn,
And Anu weeps,
And Ki herself
Doth churn her deeps.

Emily shmemily,
Emily Dickinson,
Recluse and poetess,
Rendered her rhyme

Idiosyncrously,
Much of her poetry
Reading most cryptically
Much of the time.

Alot o ****
spe akstot
hehe art
**** hi sh
ere poe
m hwisp
ers sweetno
things to
thee lbo
w.

There once was a woman from Spain
Who loved to make love in the rain.
     She also had fun
     Making love in the sun,
And always in the public domain.

        ^         ^
       My kitty
        cat's an                                        
           imp
       ra cti cal                            
    purrrrrrfect
  little dainty fat                    
    little lady cat                                                         .
       who uses                                                                  s
         her litter box while wearing her white sock
                                     

Antique
paper
& ink
& glue,
a fragrance
I drink
in through
my nose,
fragrant
like a dead rose.
I fan my face,
& fall into
an antique book
aroma coma.

Adolf ******
Was a lot littler
Than most Aryan brothers
And their mothers.

The Honey Bee

Little buzzing Honey Bee,
Honey sweetens me and thee.
Thou art busy all the day;
Busy Bee, thy wings are gay.

Flowers bloom and showers fall;
Spring is springing over all.
Thou shalt work till daylight's end.
Golden Bee, thou art my friend!


The Beekeeper

Little buzzing Honey Bee,
Thou dost make my gold for me.
Labour, Bee, because thy toil
Buys my meat and drink and oil.

Thou art mine: what thou dost make,
Slave! to market I shall take.
Mine the Bee and mine the Earth,
Mine by right of Human birth.

A triolet
     's a pirouette
In a ballet
A triolet
(Or should I say
     A triolette?)
A triolet
     's a pirouette.

Galaxy in hand,
     I zoom in on Mount Fuji
          with Nintendo thumbs.

There once was from Whoville a Who
Who pretended the Grinch was her boo:
     She said she would please him,
     But only would tease him
Till his grassy green Grinch-***** turned blue.

There once was a woman from Cork
Who visited was by a stork
     Who brought her a boy,
     A blue bundle of joy,
Who grew and became a huge dork.

We're fishes in the internet
Caught in the catch of net the day.
The smartest smartphones place a bet
That some night soon you'll meet a gray.
A U.F.O. (or, as they say
In England Land, a yoofo) flies
From where sweet baby scarecrows play
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

While sweating drops of acid sweat,
A cyborg prays away the gay.
A covid sneeze that's extra wet
Is heading thine iambic way.
Tuberculariaceae......
Is the password!  You win the prize!!
Ride on a rocket to Mars, crochet,
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

If you should dance a minuet,
Throw in a twerk for Claude Monet.
I fly around a jumbo jet
While crying, "Climate change!  Obey!!"
Unqualified I fly (hooray!)
A plane that fails hardwarewise.  
Olympic athletes play croquet
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

Enjoy a ride in Santa's sleigh
Before you make your reindeer pies.
Shake thou the darling buds of May,
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

The shuttlecock, served,
Goes over the net.
I'll probably lose
The dollar I bet.

The birdie in flight
Flits like a sparrow.
She hits it so hard
It darts like an arrow.

I smack it as hard
As I can possibly smack it,
And, wouldn't you know it,
It's stuck in my racquet.

          Summerlight sunflight—
     singsonging songbirds singing,
winging blue heaven.

There once was a man from Tyrone
Who spent all his time all alone:
     It got on his nerves,
     And he wanted some curves,
So he Frankensteined a female clone.

There once was a man from Green Bay
Who made it a habit each day
     To ****** an udder
     While churning his butter,
Then go for a nap in the hay.

There once was a gal from Quebec
Whose boss was a pain in the neck:
     She told him, "I quit
     Cuz I'm sicka yer ****!"
And her boss, he "misplaced" her last check.

G♾D

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Invented an eminently
Humorous verse form
Which is also a terse form.

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There once was a man from Zumbrota
Who'd **** down a 2-liter soda,
     Then burp up a symphony
     By Beethoven winsomely,
From the first bar to the end of the coda.

Prove whether I do change, my dear,
Or if that I do still remain
Like as I went, or far or near,
And if ye find me not the same,
Declare 't is so that all may hear.

But if ye prove I change, my dear,
Not, but unchanged I do remain
Constant and true whithersoe'er
I travel to, then, dearest, deign
T'admit it only in mine ear.

          A dead, flat cricket
under bright fluorescent lights
     in a bathroom stall.

The crow in the tree
    is actually
a black trash bag.

Betwixt
the womb
& tomb,
a bloom
of beau-
ty, doom,
& gloom
(who's you)
is cru-
cifixt.

There once was a fella from France
Who'd dance a libidinous dance:
     He'd focus the eyes
     Of the club on his thighs,
Then dance himself out of his pants.

A peaches dawn climbs
     a deep-breathing dark blue sky:
          flowers, a warm breeze.

The boy in the womb
Is already attending
DUI classes.

A fruit fly flies by:
     There's enough apple
          for us both.

Rrrrrrramən
n°○°●•○●•dles
are °•●○dləs
and ○°•●dles
of n●°○•dləs,
●○°•○•●°dles.

I've got a pair.          
I keep 'em in my underwear:
Two eggs in a nest of hair.    

Since Jesus Christ is God, and I am not;
Since I am not my own creator, I,
Adam, shall seek no more to justify
Myself; for every tittle, dot, and jot
Has been fulfilled by Christ who's God of all,
The Adam hitherto I could not be,
The faithful Adam faithful now in me,
Adam redeemed and lifted from the fall.

The God of all the gods of nature, earth,
The kosmos, hades, greed, lust, war, and death,
Whose word is life, whose life is breath, whose breath
Inspires the wind that seeds the second birth,
Is Sin's Exterminator, Death's Decease,
Judgment, Forgiveness, Mercy, Love, and Peace.

Father God
Doesn't spare the rod
Or spoil
Any boi or goil.

Flying in falling
     Softly snow, five blue pigeons
And a white pigeon.  

There once was a man from Kilkenny
Who purchased a pipe for a penny,
     Then filled it with wacky
     And woolly tobacky,
And smoked himself dumb at four:twenny.