The Virginia Quarterly Review "The Mutable Past," a memoir collected in FANTASEERS, A BOOK OF MEMORIES by Lewis Turco of growing up in the 1950s in Meriden, Connecticut, (Scotsdale AZ: Star Cloud Press, 2005).
The Tower Journal Two short stories, "The Demon in the Tree" and "The Substitute Wife," in the spring 2009 issue of Tower Journal.
The Tower Journal A story, "The Car," and two poems, "Fathers" and "Year by Year"
The Tower Journal Memoir, “Pookah, The Greatest Cat in the History of the World,” Spring-Summer 2010.
The Michigan Quarterly Review This is the first terzanelle ever published, in "The Michigan Quarterly Review" in 1965. It has been gathered in THE COLLECTED LYRICS OF LEWIS TURCO/WESLI COURT, 1953-2004 (www.StarCloudPress.com).
The Gawain Poet An essay on the putative medieval author of "Gawain and the Green Knight" in the summer 2010 issue of Per Contra.
The Black Death Bryan Bridges' interesting article on the villanelle and the terzanelle with "The Black Death" by Wesli Court as an example of the latter.
Seniority: Six Shakespearian Tailgaters This is a part of a series called "Gnomes" others of which have appeared in TRINACRIA and on the blog POETICS AND RUMINATIONS.
Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical Meters An essay with illustrations of poems written in classical meters together with a "Table of Meters" and "The Rules of Scansion" in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine
Miss Pussy's Parlor Songs Part Twenty-Seven
KHASHOGGI
"The Sheik of Araby told me
He's not some sort of bogey
And had no hand in the murder of
The journalist Khashoggi.
"They did not lure him into their
Embassy in Turkey,
Kill him, cut his body up,
And pile him in a murky
"Basement hideaway where he
Festered in a corner
Until he learned to write nice things
Like little Jackie Horner.
"And I believe my oily friend,
He gives me lots of money
Which I respect him for a lot,
And I don't think that's funny!
"But I'll investigate these claims,
And I'll get at the facts
About this weird Khashoggi mess
Like a butcher with an axe."
FAKE NEWS
"I love to yell 'FIRE' in a crowd
And then, when someone sets one,
I blame the bullet that was fired
Or the idiot that gets one."
FIRED
it's okay because I'm tired
Anyway. I've been mired
In his muck, I've been liared
At for months since I was hired
To be his stooge, so now I'm fired.
Fine and dandy. Bye-bye, Trumpy!
May your life be short and lumpy.
BALLS
Baltics, Balkans, I ain't seen 'em!
Not a set of balls between them.
GRUMPY
Donald Trump is feeling grumpy,
For the Democrats have won
Lots of seats that once were
Trumpy.
Now his works have been undone!
Governors have disappeared
All across the USA,
Representatives that he has feared
Have appeared, ruined his day,
Not to mention month and year,
So he mopes and pules away,
Wipes away mucus and tear --
What can anybody say
To make Trumpkin feel much
better?
Take away Fake News's passes!
Write that nasty judge a letter
When he shields that bunch if asses!
He is just a legal leech
To defend freedom of speech!
HIRE AND FIRE
Who is Trump about to hire
For his "shitshow in a dumpster
fire"?
Don't ask me, I'm not a liar.
NO LOVE AFFAIR
Trump wants to help Nancy Pelosi
Keep her leadership of The House?
Watch her button up her blouse!
He cries, "Why don't you? I love
me!"
Nancy shows no jealousy.
LOYALTY
"I will not hear the murder tapes--
They're just a case of sour grapes
Being crushed. My Prince will
come
Someday and he will pat my bum
For being purposefully dumb.
He'll thank me for my loyalty
To the Saudi royalty."
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