World’s Only Poet Laureate The ugly world has leaders Chaos thanks all laureates Let the poem have horns The poetess asks me to I am poet laureate
trained at Harvard, Yale, and Oxford
dictators and democrats
native born and foreign
as does Bacchus,
the Devil, and Poetesses in waiting
sour lemonade
dilemmas, Sturm und Drang
rhyme with orgasm
thrust a rhythm
ejaculate a verse for
Motherhood, honor, and
a professorship at Oxford, but
by default because
the fault is with the Stars
and with Brutus Cabals
in a brutal world
made by elites who
are rich by gold
poor by morals
educated by parties
who fail to see
the poets on the street
banks of angst
derivatives of glory
with interest
— Snerd Lee Limbaugh
Archive for May, 2009
Snerd Lee Limbaugh, Poet Laureate to the world
Almost Short Stuff by Douglas Gilbert , “Burma Beneath Mount Myanmar”
Burma Beneath Mount Myanmar The generals nullify humility. bring typhoons, keep out We challenge their magic, because We don’t mind the joke Could be an outlaw of Yeats —Douglas Gilbert
They proclaim:
We are the gods who
the evil West. Let
the monks not in prison
the supposed holy
save their people.
we have the weapons, the Chinese,
the name change
of a Nobel Peace Prize for
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
because we are the gods, and
monks are Burmese shamen on their knees
arrested at will, orange slices
has swum across the lake
to see the elected leader
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, or
it might be a crazy American
who thinks Myanmar is Burma, and
magic
ref: New York Times, May 8, 2009, “World Briefing: Myanmar: U.S. Man Held In Swim To Dissident’s Home,”pg.A13.
Books by Douglas Gilbert
Almost Short Stuff by Douglas Gilbert
Umbrellas Fail I’m in a misty rain Could I be an eagle —Douglas Gilbert
The petals are falling
I think of fruit
purges
silent pollen and
Gulags
hawk my visions, slaughter
polemic vermin
where idea corn is stalked
scarecrows are Pinocchio
Books by Douglas Gilbert
Breathing In The Age of Swine Flu
Contagion Cap And Trade Because the icebergs of fear are melting rapidly, the World Stealth Organization has proposed limits on breathing. Human exhaling raises the level of carbon dioxide and is the main vector of virus disease. All patrons of gyms will be required to obtain Exhale Credits from sedentary people who stay indoors.
A cap on breathing will be proposed at the next meeting in Geneva on July 4. However, it is recommended that all sedentary people of the hermit class apply for their Certification of Small Mouth Print now. Once that is done, they can write Carbon & Contagion Contracts that can be traded on the stock exchange. These securities can be bought by any person wishing to exercise to offset their Carbon & Contagion Mouth & Foot Print.
— Snerd Lee Limbaugh
