PIZZA POEMS

Nonga

Few hours pictures on s/media,
Nonga gone too early, mortuary ices like that we bought Sunday after church
What to think then, soil one me after relatives to come,
Temperature is above normal in a coffin can't scream
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Marco Babu

Gone Not Forever

You gone?
Tell him to love you harder,
Never strike your head deeper,
Not walk away when you shout,
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Brian Dredan

Dad

When I was a kid,
Smiles filled my face,
Even with porridge for lunch,
I still felt comforted,
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Brian Dredan

Diet Song

Well breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam
Lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham
Dinner one chicken wing broiled not fried no gravy no biscuits no pie
And this dietin' dietin' dietin' dietin' sure is a rough way to die
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Shel Silverstein

Venice

Bugsa Bunny you're the sanest man
in all Italia last hope for risorgimento
singing Santa Lucia in the barber shop
glorious ears twitching your gondola
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S. K. Kelen

Bleezer's Ice Cream

I am Ebenezer Bleezer,
I run BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM STORE,
there are flavors in my freezer
you have never seen before,
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Jack Prelutsky

To Various Persons Talked To All At Once

You have helped hold me together.
I'd like you to be still.
Stop talking or doing anything else for a minute.
No. Please. For three minutes, maybe five minutes.
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Kenneth Koch

Crater Face

is what we called her. The story was
that her father had thrown Drano at her
which was probably true, given the way she slouched
through fifth grade, afraid of the world, recess
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Denise Duhamel

मज़ा आ गया

Pizza खाकर जो मै मोटा हुआ
सूखी रोटी जो खाया मज़ा आ गया
करोडों में नहाकर और गंदा हुआ
चवन्नी जो पाया मज़ा आ गया
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Soham Chauhan

Automobile Soft Legs

"The world's smallest painting ... Our Beautiful Canada was painted with a single hair and the aid of a microscope. The artist considers his price of seven million dollars not too high."

The Globe and Mail, January 25, 1979.

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Paul Cameron Brown

Dream Most

clarion the set
pepper that
pizza toss
manga just exports
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Kirt Rik

A Poor Child

What a frolic torture it is?!
An atrocious fail in God's quiz.
A poor child with nothing to eat.
Pizza! Chicken! Burger! or meat!
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Lyna Salman

Evil Within

On stormy nights, they run to me for shelter,
I gave them clothes, bread and butter,
I took them in, I became their brother,
In the night, they poisoned my pizza;
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Emmanuel Shadrach

Knight-errant

A well-thumbed book
like a well-thumbed life,
"whilst you walk this earth"
yet nothing is "afoot",
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Paul Cameron Brown