These are epigrams, including both original epigrams and translations of epigrams by other poets.
Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
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Tea Party Madness
by Michael R. Burch
for Connor Kelly
Since we agree,
let’s have a nice tea
with our bats in the belfry.
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The Not-So-Heroic Stoic, or, A la Cartesian
i think,
therefore i question
if, who and what i am.
—michael r. burch
i think,
therefore i guess
who the hell i am
on this hellish quest.
—michael r. burch
i think,
therefore i postulate:
Fate
ain’t so great.
—michael r. burch
i think,
therefore i am
confused
and unenthused.
—michael r. burch
i think,
therefore i am
not a fan
of THE MAN.
—michael r. burch
i think,
therefore i am
puzzled
addled
frazzled
befuddled.
—michael r. burch
i thunk
THEREFORE
i am sunk
...
like a frog
in a bog,
KERPLUNK!
—michael r. burch
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First Base Freeze
by Michael R. Burch
I find your love unappealing
(no, make that appalling)
because you prefer kissing
then stalling.
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Cover Girl
by Michael R. Burch
Cunning
at sunning
and dunning,
the stunning
young woman’s in the running
to be found nude on the cover
of some patronizing lover.
In this case the cover is a bed cover, where the enterprising young mistress is about to be covered herself.
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The greatest philosophers are better known for their questions, doubts and mistakes than what they actually knew. Thus lesser thinkers may want to avoid the hubris of certainty in a universe that seems designed not to reveal its ultimate secrets. — Michael R. Burch
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Less Heroic Couplets: Fine Feathered Fiends I
by Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
Winner of the National Poetry Month Couplet Competition
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Less Heroic Couplets: Fine Feathered Fiends II
by Michael R. Burch
Fascists of a feather
flock together.
Published by: CNN Political Ticker, TheHill.com, DailyKos (article), Republique (headline), Reddit Political Humor, Humane Conservatives Unite Blog, Free Republic, BigCityLib Blogspot, Los Angeles Times (on Facebook page), Haaretz.com (Israel), Crikey.com (Australia), Rabble (Canada), HeadTopics.com (UK), Democracy for Thailand, IncendiaryNews.com, Mediate.com, Cleveland.com (as the headline of a letter to the editor), DakotaFreePress.com, Golem
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Less Heroic Couplets: Midnight Stairclimber
by Michael R. Burch
Procreation
is at first great sweaty recreation,
then—long, long after the sex dies—
the source of endless exercise.
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Less Heroic Couplets: Liquidity Crisis
by Michael R. Burch
And so I have loved you, and so I have lost,
accrued disappointment, ledgered its cost,
debited wisdom, credited pain . . .
My assets remaining are liquid again.
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Biblical Knowledge or “Knowing Coming and Going”
by Michael R. Burch
The wisest man the world has ever seen
had fourscore concubines and threescore queens?
This gives us pause, and so we venture hence—
he “knew” them, wisely, in the wider sense.
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