Not long ago on a board nearby, folk were lamenting the scarcity of poems that are laugh-out-loud funny. That seems excuse enough to start a thread of people's nominees for such a status.
When I think try to name any, though, I find that the poems in which I remember laughing out loud are generally not hilarious all the way through.
Bob Hickok's poem, "A Primer" cracks me up at specific lines (the one about the state motto, for example). And
Ian Frazier's "Lamentations of the Father"--I'd call it a prose poem, but let's not argue--sends me into paroxysms with the line about the cat and the tape.
Are the same things funny to you? Is any of this analyzable? Even if it's not, would you care to link to examples of the things that put you in stitches?
Laugh-out-loud funny: what is?
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