Social-media keyboard routines
Merit thumbs that are longer—which means
Augmentation of brains,
Recent science maintains ...
Texting's smart, and breeds thinking machines?
(August, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on 8th September)
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Delta Airlines, whose coffers obtain
Extra money from seats where the plane
Lacks a window, deny
That old wisdom can fly—
As they're making a gain with no pane!
(August, 2025; appeared in Light Poems of the Week on the 15th)
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(August, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 29th)
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Mango, versed in the cost of a deal,
Aided cops with a big drugs reveal ...
Never teach your macaw
Going prices—the law
Only waits for the parrot to squeal!
(August, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on 1st September)
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A new insect species comprises
All females, pronounced in their sizes.
Long field study fails
To discover the males—
As they're lunch after sex, one surmises!
(July, 2025;
appeared in Oddball Magazine on 18th August)
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(July, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 31st)
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(July, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 24th)
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(July, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 18th)
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(July, 2025; appeared in Lighten Up Online on 1st September)
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Though you castigate POTUS by tweet,
Robert Prevost, I can't wait to meet
Up—for Deal of the Day:
Make our great USA
Purchase all of the Square of St. Pete!
(May, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on 2nd June)
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Reclaiming the R-word will show one
We've had it with wokeness, says Joe, one
Of Elon's far right
Roaring R-words to slight
Dudes ... but doesn't it take one to know one?
(May, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on 2nd June)
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(May, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 23rd)
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(May, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 15th)
(April, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on 20th May)
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The workers who, lacking protections,
Rehoused Warhol's art, sans inspections,
As trash, need excusing—
Since bins they were using
Have always been bins for collections!
(April, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on 16th June)
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There can't be a beautiful deal on
EVs having no steering wheel on,
Since tariffs make Tes-
La lose value—which says
Au revoir between Donald and Elon!
(April, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on the 28th)
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(March, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 14th)
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(February, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on 6th March)
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(February, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 11th)
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Donald Trump would like Greenland to be
An American state by decree.
Nettled Danes, with a scoff,
Explete: Donald, f*** off—
Speaking words understood by DT!
(January, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on 3rd March)
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Perps with accents produced by RP
Elocution are judged not to be
Really criminal, yet
People charmed by this set
Should beware when posh fingers are free!
(January, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on 10th February)
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(January, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 17th)
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(January, 2025; appeared in the Daily Mail on the 16th)
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Heifer Hilda's lab-bred derrière
Is designed to relieve the despair
Left behind by ten score
Dirty-coal years or more—
As it issues low-methane hot air!
(January, 2025; appeared in Oddball Magazine on the 6th)
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