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Over 600 poems and stories in rhyme
"Criticize by creating." Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
A catchy tune abhorred a deaf dove - paraphrase of Joachim Ringelnatz
A comedian - paraphrase of a Joachim Ringelnatz poem
A Commencement Address Without a Bill Attached
A drunken poet - paraphrase of a Gotthold Ephraim Lessing poem
A Government of Shame - a composer's view
A Greek drama - semi colon and comma
A Litany of Finger Pointing - in Songs for the Victims of AIDS
A Litany of Symptoms - in Love Songs for Dorothy
A Losing Proposition - eye on a lousy investor
A Modern Observation on The Anti-War Movement - "Where have all the critics gone, long time passing?"
A nonny mouse's New Year's greeting
A steady diet - it's news to me
Act of God
Advice to the PessimistAfter-dinner Mint - answering Samuel Barber
Ain't it a pisser? - right in the kisser
Albert Gore -- a study in the massive acquisition of capital.
All God's Chillun Got Credit Cards
All Things in Moderation - pabulum
An inconvenient surprise - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
An irrational anthem - sung to the tune, "America the Beautiful," music by Samuel A. Ward (1847-1903), with a nod to Ambrose Bierce's "A Rational Anthem"
Anti-capitalism struggles - a curriculum of sorts
anythingis - that new old refrain
Armed peace - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Art - you take a part
At his mirror - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Attributed to - thoughts on a phrase in use
Between rhetoric and reality - on the reality of socialist Cuba's healthcare system
Bird Songs (three poems - rhymed paraphrases of Wilhelm Busch poems)
Bureaucracy - paraphrase of Joachim Ringelnatz poem
Broke - someone spoke
Buy the lie and kill the truth
By 2010 - an attack of look back
Capital for Communists - a story growing old
Cash flow - a parody on Cole Porter's classic song, "True Love"
Cherished Cultural Myths - to maintain power and influence
Chump Change - variations on "Mulberry Bush"
Cigarette Smoke - in Love Songs for Dorothy
Clever Death, Stupid Death - in Songs for the Victims of AIDS
Comfortable and convenient
Conjugating HitlerCould and May - an up-to-date play
Cousin Francis' Donkey Ride - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Dear Elsie Pee kills - on the LCP
Default on Debt - the game of centuries
Diogenes and the bad boys of Corinth, a Grecian story - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Do not be greatly unhappy - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Do you think this dreary game - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Doctor Oppression comes to call
Eden round, there went a great wall - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Embarrassed - a political maneuver by we Democrats
Empowering feminism - a parody on "I Am Woman" (first released 1971) by Helen Reddy and singer-songwriter Ray Burton.
Erotic vaudeville - paraphrase of an Alfred Lichtenstein poem
Errors - a socialist's confession
Eternity stretches out unending - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Everything's about my colored skin - (or sadly, Why racism works)
Everywhere is a wonderland - paraphrase of a Joachim Ringelnatz poem
Examinations - towards abrogations
Fascist is as fascist does - a little bug inside of me
Fat cats richly rich of late - a comparative and sourced criticism of the nouveau "fair share" folks
Fled from empty market shelves - a history lesson
Foolish men were rulingFools and an ass - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
For minootes toidytree sekunds
For Your Common GoodFortune smiles - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Freddie and Fannie and Barney and Frank
Freedom is the pits - a revolution waves
French Lesson en anglais - mêmes choses, mais en pire
Friend Or Foe
Government numbers - just words
Government SpeaksGreen drivel - love locks, dead
green screws red - lights or bread
Growth in debt - a non-sequitur
He allows us? - boxing in cages
Heavenly Days - from Hot House Ballads
Hen Party - a eunuch's cluck
Hillarious - with two l's, because misspelling can be fun
Hippogrizzly - a zoological fantasy
History LessonHook, line and sinker - on hegemonic dominance
Hot and Blue - from Hot House Ballads
Hot House - from Hot House Ballads
Hot House Ballads (four poems)
Hotel Stupidity - checking in is easy
How is it - questions not in the news
How much is that politician's favor? - (To the melody, "That Doggie in the Window?," composed in 1952 by Bob Merrill)
I have a little -ism - sung to the tune of "I Have a Little Dreidel," original lyrics by Samuel S. Grossman and music by S. E. Goldfarb.
Ice Cream - a modern litany ad hominem
Idea - hist whist fist
I'm done with my complaining - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Müller poem
I'm gonna guide you to the promised land - a story quite like others
I'm very fond of Cummings' words
Imagine, as a parody - to the tune "Imagine," by John Lennon (circa 1971)
In a boiling bath - paraphrase of a Joachim Ringelnatz poem
In a moment of candor - a Democrat spoke
In a world of make-believe - at its end one learns to grieve
In the workers' paradise - in the Stalinist state
It was a cross - in Songs for the Victims of AIDS
It's lovely to learn a new sterling phrase
It's too hot, and it's too cold - a cabaret song in the Russian style
Jumbled - in Love Songs for Dorothy
Justice - depending on the meaning of the word
Knee cheese - sum non sense
Leadership Failure - spoke a failed leader
Left is Right, as Right is Left
Let's have some quail, by George
Let's borrow - a nonsense poem for these modern times
Let's take that leaking lifeboat
Life - in Three Songs for Roger
Light the LampsLit from within - for my friend, Julie
Love - in Three Songs for Roger
Love Songs for Dorothy - An appreciation of Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Love you, too! - by the numbers
Modern Slavery
Modern Times and CharityMoney makes the whirled go round
Moral Relativism - verses and refrain
Murderous murderer murdered - "M " as in the myth of Che Guevara
Musicological Marx - patter song variations on "Mademoiselle from Armentières"
Mulligan Stew - a recipe inverse
Naturally no one steals anything
No Body Blues - from Hot House Ballads
No Dignity - and now comes repayment
No God is the god for me - a musing on amusing atheists
No matterNo Place - no space, no grace, no trace
Noah's Ark - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Müller poem
None of your damn business
NonsenseNow how does that seem to a lender like you? - a run-around
O shitty, little cities in the dell
Ode to the Indiana Teachers Union
Offertory - an anthem of irony
Oh it's always someone else's fault
Oh, to Walk a While in Hitler's Shoes - a cabaret song
On a Candidate's Platform
Parataxis prophylaxis - it's syntaxis round a roamin' axis
Partisan artisan - most news is a ruse
Phil owed Sophie's - whence non sense
Pleasant words for ugly things
Pogrom - after Klabund
Politicians at any price
PoliticsPrayer
Prayer for the Common GoodPrivatization - publicized
Prudence and Thrift - a hoary story
Psalm 16 - (in rhymed paraphrase)Puny verse - hawking one's wares
Put the past to rest - ignore the dead oppressed
Questions In Answer to a Silly Question
Readerly and writerly - vocabulating mightily
Rearrange the words - an exercise in grammar
Red is a game, much like Green
Rejecting belief - believe you me!
Response (of a drunken poet) - paraphrase of a Gotthold Ephraim Lessing poem
Revolution revolves but once - lèse majesté remains among its stunts
Revolutionary Economics - debt slavery
Romance Novel - in Love Songs for Dorothy
Room A-460 - in Songs for the Victims of AIDS
Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue
Saying - paraphrase of a Justinus Kerner rhyme
Senator Crooked and Congressman Hoax
Serve the poor - observing the Poverty Barons
Sexy acrostic - just to turn a trick
So - stupid
So it was - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Socialism's Last Hurrah - not democracy in any town
Sometimes
Songs for the Victims of AIDS (five poems)Spaghetti - paraphrase of a Joachim Ringelnatz poem
Spend what you don't have - no tonics for wreckonomics
Subtracting - from a verse of Gustave Flaubert
Tale of the Makers and the Takers
The Austerity Game, American Style
The cupboard was bare - it bares, repeating
The Dust Settles
The End Game of ConformityThe evening comes, the day is past - paraphrase of a Manfred Kyber poem
The funniest thing - a meditation on Emma Goldman
The kids are screwed - a truth renewed
The new, wonderful good society
The old fool - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
The Once Great British Bulldog
The One God, PraiseThe pot cracks into shards - paraphrase of an Erich Kurt Mühsam poem
The Privileges of Intellectuals
The Quilt - in Songs for the Victims of AIDS
The rich - owed an American ode
The Robert Reich Song - to the tune of "The farmer in the dell"
The Singer - paraphrase of a Joachim Ringelnatz poem
The Stork - paraphrase of a Heinrich Seidel poem
The straw that breaks the camel's back
The Sum and End of It - consequences come to all
The Truth - no doubt about itThe turkeys vote for Christmas
The Voice Box - (Rhymed paraphrase of an Eduard Möricke nonsense poem)
Thick as thieves - an ode to goad
This debt is your debt - a parody on Woody Guthrie's non-folk song, "This Land Is Your Land"
This Then That - portrait of the Gordian Acrobat
To Party Members
To Reap Without SewingTo such a reward I still say goodbye - paraphrase of a Joachim Ringelnatz poem
Toadies compete with kowtows - ever the game as power allows
Toil and labor praise I not! - paraphrase of a Gotthold Ephraim Lessing poem
True socialism, oh yes, he said
Trust us - by the comedy routine, Bait and Switch
U
Uncle Casper's Red Nose - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poemUnderstand this then! - paraphrase from Goethe's Faust!
Unsteadiness - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Unwise from the start - market forces and common sense dictate
We drag our feet through sands of time
We Get Nothing - a kindergarten level curricula
We won't ever be like them - reality, ahem!
We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party
We've got to fight these battles
What About It? - in Love Songs for Dorothy
What the hell - depletion concretion
What's a half a billion dollars
Who Am I? - in Three Songs for Roger
Whoppers, lies and fabrications
Whose gonna pull the welfare wagon - a Western poem
Worries - to keep the populace alarmed
Would it matter, anyhow? - paraphrase of a Wilhelm Busch poem
Wouldn't you like to have some cash?
Yes, we have no good answers - to be sung to the tune, "Yes! We Have No Bananas," a novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn (circa 1922)
Yesterday - in Songs for the Victims of AIDS
You toil - words of Abraham Lincoln
STORIES AND OTHER TRUE NONSENSE by title
A Short History of Mayor Potholes
Donkey Skins and Elephant Hides
The Queen of Upper Downerstuff
You're a phobic - [insert word]-ophobe
