Poe Jokes

Tony Harrison’s ‘Once Controversial’ Poem Gets Ultimate Graveyard Gig, Author Attends (Spiritually, Anyway)

Tony Harrison’s ‘Once Controversial’ Poem Gets Ultimate Graveyard Gig, Author Attends (Spiritually, Anyway). What better way to honor a poet than to perform his most famous (and famously scandalous) work right where it all began? ? This performance of the ‘once controversial’ poem V, originally planned for its 40th anniversary in the very Leeds cemetery that inspired it, has now taken on a whole new layer of dramatic irony. The timing couldn’t be more… poetic, as it will now also…

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Computer Geek Poetry

The following is submitted, exactly as authored, but a “translation” follows: >>!*”# ^’`$$- !*=@$_ %*>>~#4 &[]../ |{,,SYSTEM HALTED The symbols above are called “DINGBATS”. Each Dingbat has a NAME. When you speak the name of the symbols, the following “poem” results: Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat equal at dollar under-score, Percent splat waka waka tilde number four, Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash, Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH!

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Redneck Love Poem

Collards is green my dog’s name is Blue and I’m so lucky to have a sweet thang like you. Yore hair is like cornsilk a-flapping in the breeze. Softer than Blue’s and without all them fleas. You move like the bass which excite me in May. You ain’t got no scales but I luv you anyway. Yo’re as satisfy’n as okry jist a-fry’n in the pan Yo’re as fragrant as “snuff” right out of the can. You have some’a yore…

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If Edgar Allen Poe had used a computer…

Suppose Edgar Allen Poe Had Used a Computer… Once upon a midnight dreary, Fingers cramped and vision bleary, Systems manuals piled high and Wasted paper on the floor. Longing for the warmth of bed sheets Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets, Having reached the bottom line, I took a floppy from the drawer. Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command, And waited for the disk to store, Only this and nothing more. Deep into the monitor…

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Adam and Eve– The poem

In the garden of eden, As everyone knows, Lives Adam and Eve without any clothes. In this garden, were 2 little leaves, One covered Adam’s and One covered Eve’s. As the story goes on Nevertheless to say, The wind came along And blew the leaves away. At the sight Adam did stare There was Eves treasure All covered with hair. And wonder came, under Eves eyes, as Adam’s thing started to rise. They found a spot, that suited them best,…

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A Poem For Those Over 30…

A computer was something on TV From a science fiction show of note A window was something you hated to clean And ram was the cousin of a goat. Meg was the name of my girlfriend And gig was a job for the nights Now they all mean different things And that really mega bytes. An application was for employment A program was a TV show A cursor used profanity A keyboard was a piano. Memory was something that you…

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Poem /Rhyme

A voluptuous blonde was short on cash and came up with a plan to make some money. She decided to go into some local bars and bet some of the patrons that she had a better poem/rhyme than anything they could come up with. (As long as it was a poem/rhyme also). The only problem was she didn’t have enough money for the kind of bet she wanted to make and therefore provided the condition that if they won she…

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Cow Poetry

This is probably what you would hear in a cow poetry reading: Cow reading poem she created: “Distant Hills” The distant hills call to me Their rolling waves seduce my heart. Oh, how i want to graze in their lush valleys, Oh, how i want to run down their green slopes. Alas, i cannot. Damn the electric fence! Damn the electric fence! Thank you.

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Poetic Inspiration

A professor asked a student to remain after class one day. Holding out the young man’s assignment, the professor said, “Did you write this poem all by yourself?” The student said, “Yes, every word of it.” The professor said, “Well, then, I’m delighted to meet you, Mr. Poe. I had heard this rumor that you were long dead!”

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