Poetry
15 Metafours
Jonathan Williams
Cocktales to Please Priapus
priapean is a measure
consisting of a glyconic
and a pherecratean (qqv)
separated by a diaeresis
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still gettin whatcha want
yeah but only just
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onan in arkansas big
man chokin his chicken
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size matters sighs matter
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tad tomkins was interviewing
the ineffable andy warhol
and the ineffable one
got in first and
asked do you have
a big cock tomkins
thought he'd asked do
you have a big
clock so he said
not especially and glanced
furtively at his wrist
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surely the best faux-épitaphe
pour son sépulchre ever
penned is by john
cheever it goes i
never disappointed a hostess
and i never took
it up the butt
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i telephoned my old
master at st. albans
school and asked how
he was doing he
said fine i can't
see and i can't
hear and i stumble
about like silenus but
the important thing is
i can still come
and i can still
make other people come
that's the important thing
and what else can
you say to that
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slip between the sheets
with the topaz man
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here's one i heard
at a party recently
for the boys at
hog river what's better
than roses on a
piano tulips on an
organ cool sez reuben
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Dawn Song in the Pennine Dales
ee wakey wakey wakey
git hands off snakey
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at the senate hearing
senator thurmond then asked
well judge thomas just
how big is it
well said judge thomas
about the size of
two beer cans so
then the senator asked
well clarence is that
eight ounces or twelve
ounces the american people
need to know facts
they are so deprived
not depraved just deprived
o thank you jesus
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Gavin
my dick's too short
to fuck with god
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hey the dog's going
to smell your underwear
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and now what we
need is a good
joke with which to
remember 1998 a very
singular year in our
tawdry and tacky republic
so what do you
call a blow-job that
lasts for eight days
give up well the
answer is hanukkah lewinsky
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can't you write nice
poems about flowers and nature
stuff you mean like
amanita phalloides and stinking
willie sure if that's
really what you want