Dialog Outside the Lakeside Grocery By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
The grocery had provided him with boxes of rotten lettuce He was loading them onto a yellow pick-up truck He was a frail white man and wore a plaid wo...
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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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Sather Tower Mystery By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
Seems there was this Professor a member of what should be called The Good German Department Must have signed his name to 5,000 petitions in front of ...
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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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Chattanooga By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
1 Some say that Chattanooga is the Old name for Lookout Mountain To others it is an uncouth name Used only by the uncivilised Our a-historical period ...
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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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What You Mean I Can’t Irony? By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
A high-yellow lawyer woman told me I ought to go to Europe to “broaden your per spective.” This happened at a black black cocktail party an oil portra...
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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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If my Enemy is a Clown, a Natural Born Clown By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
i tore down my thoughts roped in my nightmares remembered a thousand curses made blasphemous vows to demons choked on the blood of hosts ??? ate my ha...
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The Black Cock By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
He frightens all the witches and the dragons in their lair He cues the clear blue daylight and He gives the night its dare He flaps His wings for warn...
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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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Skin Cancer By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
Balmy overcast nights of late September; Palms standing out in street light, house light; Full moon penetrating the cloud-film With an explosive halo,...
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