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Decline of Publishing
Under threat from the creditors
the newspaper's editors
found their passion
for fashion
and sexual predators. 

 Craigslist pissed off the daily news; sorely their revenues were missed.

This is slimmerick!

Board Games and World Events
The Spartans improperly
Thought at Thermopylae
That the Persians
Had new versions
Of Risk and Monopoly.

This has potential to be a crossover hit.

forced rhyme is fun like fisting
Fighting New Age
Spewage
Becomes more
Of a bore
As you age.

Old hat like a Sagittarius from Polaris who wore weary batman underwear over his clitoris.

Riling the reptile

Nightmare

What disturbed my rest
was a violent ingest
by a riled reptile
I wrestled in the Nile
Thank God I awoke in the midwest!

This poem is actually about a wet dream, narrated by someone "in deNile."

The Second Sex Act

A Grand Intrusion

Jean Renoir
Was in my boudoir
The Rules of the Game
Were really quite tame
Our safeword was au revoir

Simone de Beauvoir is the rhyme that dare not speak its name, the traitor-narrator.

Close Reading

Cheney's Concern
Department of Jihad
Boom bomb god
gives wolf blitz
the shits
quereliz façade

1."bomb bomb god/blitz" Thunder(word)/lightening 2. "quereliz" querulous/quarrelous/queer Liz/Querelle

Green face, green grass

The Importance of Alcohol

Your mortal coil
's gonna spoil
Aerate a bit
Water it
It's just soil

I've often felt myself sprouting after a few beers.

Affair

Alsace jews
from Mulhouse
foreign rebel
to the devil
j'accuse...!

It's racist? / That's baseless! / Mulhouse is on the historical A-list!

Mississippi
Is trippy.
Go away
You gay
Hippie.

Mississippi is the archetypal man of his generation. Told from the outcasts (others) view. We are forced to reject what we do not understand.

Untitled

A stoat
In a coat
Is a net
Threat
To your throat.

One if by land. Two if by sea. Three if by dry cleaners.

Taxed Enough

April drama
Heil Obama
tax/spend
children
kill your mama

Fanciful tale of Obama as Orestes. Correctly connects matricide to unconstitutional practice of income taxation.

Herbert's Fuse

Flower power

Summer showers
power flowers.
Which falls
squalls
then devour.

This poem brutally rams Dylan Thomas down George Herbert's throat. Or vice versa.

Postmodern meets primal

Better butter makes the bitter batter better

Hottentot
caught
in a Boer
War
plot

What / a lot / hath man wrought / from the Hot- / ten tot!

Technical proficiecy

Jack & Diane
John Cougar Mellencamp
always did well in camp
because
he was
the storytellin' champ.

Seamless fit forces reader to confront synchronicity inherent in thought and language.

Manipulation through rhyme.

Middle Ages I

When Dante's
Aunties
Read his drafts,
They laughed
And wet their panties.


When reading forced rhyme "panties", the effect is to tighten the throat - similar to laughter. 

Confronting taboo with slimmericks.

Your favorite band sucks. Literally.
N' Sync posters
flaming roasters
semen
he-men
O-ring toasters

Well regimented meter.  Themes: strength, heat, destruction.

Entanglement

Morning Muammar
Morning coffee
tall and frothy
bold and
grand
like ghadafi


Transmogrified despot, Mediterranean Master Shake. Ghadafi's hair is crazy.

Starting Point

Cape Codpiece


Nantucket?
A bucket!
Big grin,
Wipe chin,
Well, fuck it.


Original slimmerick, connecting to previous popular tradition. Relies on reader's own knowledge for context.