[Carl Sundell]

Swagman,

A minimalist?

Sundell

[Robert Swagman]

Never used to be until I started posting here. This began as an epic....

Wait.. I thought you said twenty words or less!

[This message has been edited by Robert Swagman (edited June 28, 2002).]

[Kate Benedict]

This was such a fertile thread I thought I'd revive it!

[Robert Swagman]

I grind my brain, but nothing’s out
too sacred here to write about.
Disgusting topics have arose
but everybody’s covered those
from beastial sex and naval jelly
to body parts both coarse and smelly.
The only topic left’s too sick
to write about - that’s politics.

[RCL]

Good one, Jerry. Nothing's as unspeakably filthy as politics. This was inspired by a current post on the deep end:

Oh, Doctor!

It causes me to be confused
and feel it must be used.
My brain works for a Nobel Prize—
it’s always on the rise.
If only I could have it cut,
I would escape this rut.
Before the lawyers try to stop us,
please amputate my penis!

[Robert Swagman]

Jeesh, Ralph - you got us started on body parts again!


Now Peter was a sickly child
Not the type to take off wild
Or sow his seeds just anywhere
Until one day he saw a pair
On Peggy Sue, now twenty-one.
He blushed with thoughts of carnal fun
With such delights as those full-blown;
‘My,’ she said, ‘how much you’ve grown!’

[McVik]

Here's one from my bottom drawer turned down by the only editor who ever saw it


The reason some doctors wear gloves
Is not out of hatred or love
But to plainly disrobe
Your dignity and probe
The part of you that ain't above

[Hugh Clary]

Though it's said Oscar Wilde was a fag
Whose talents had started to lag
When they threw him in jail
For wagging his tail,
There were many still tailing the wag.

[Roger Slater]

When Oscar was born, angels smiled
to glimpse such a sweet little child!
.....Their grins turned to laughter
.....years later, just after
it turned out that Oscar was Wilde!

[Zita Zenda]

Originally posted by Robert Swagman:
The only topic left’s too sick
to write about - that’s politics.

The worst of the topics for “outing”
is the one that ignites the most shouting.
Without naming names
or throwing flash flames,
I flout their half-truths free of doubting.

I never can find the wrong reason
for sharing the voices of treason.
It’s all propaganda,
I’ll move to Uganda!
I’ve heard it’s a temperate region…



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