Is Jersey worth it My early days Facing West I’d sit Seeing cosmic displays Dad was working Looking too Caught by any live thing Who Could calk The velvet And talk The regret That’d shoo Those who sing Would never knew Who, stinking Could smell it Catch displays Then bit By a craze
Author: T.M. Shorewick
Ode to a Brooklyn Skank
You never made it go up So it never shrank Now you're a crank Not worth a spank I'll be frank With you I never drank Something stank Neither wanted to schtup
From Gambling to AM Scrambling
Dedicated to Natalie From Gambling to AM Scrambling WOR dawns at morning With anything but soothing Skits certainly never boring Len tallies scores Michael disrupts snores Joe epitomizes befores Radio’s wave at superb AM actors
Allen Could Use a Trim
Allen could use a trim But maybe It was his way To miss identify He looked smelly But no nose Sniffled He projected dirty Without swearing In fact he was quiet Meditating while Serenely raucous That’s what happens When you write With neurons
Go Ahead Psychoanalyst
Go ahead Psychoanalyst Of an existentialist But instead Retreat Into that place Personal space Stinky feet Fear to tread Kick a meme Sew a seam Love’s thread So relax Experience The distance Over fact’s tracks
I Died
I died Three years Ago But my mind Bemuses Maybe it'll glow It refuses Any kind Fast or slow Of fears Untried
When Nero was Around
When Nero Was around Rome burning To the ground No sound Nada zilch zero Arose from the sun Like a smoke detector Alerting His imperial inspector Roman Praetor The fall has begun But a waning moon’s coo Tolled a mournful sound Rome burning To the ground Nothing profound All civilizations do
I’m Never Amusing
I’m never amusing Maybe too didactic So I appear confusing Oh, twere I slapstick I'm afraid of heights So I can’t trip In cream pie fights Do a back-flip Yet I can orate With a sense where Being great None could care So I am a comic Not by my choosing Using uttered static Better off schmoozing
He was an Eidetic
He was an eidetic Though illiterate Replete with rhetoric Able to berate With vision myopic All print stood near Well literally blind He could only hear His mind would wind In an atmosphere Where he’d remember Unable to read Alphabetic ambler Of a creed Most stammer So ebooks Saved his day Elemental crooks Letting him stay With intellectual schnooks
Carving a Tunnel
Carving a tunnel Rhapsodising Time is a funnel Nothing surprising An arch rises One collapses No surprises Just lapses Untouchable For bad grammar Yet knowable So far As a joke Can travel Under a yolk To unravel The way To a tunnel's end And play Time’s endless trend