Category: Is Poetry
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Preposterously Bad Poem by Professor Stout (writing as Mr. Heustis)
One of the more celebrated poems from Professor Stout’s second Jabs & Donner volume I love Seamen.
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Swanson Ford – Employee Self-Appraisal by Bob Gielow
To help you avoid all that stressful planning while you are grieving for me, I’ve written out the following list of assignments.
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‘Paean of the High Plains Drifter’ by Guy Duvet
SHOULD WE NEVER SPEAK WHAT WE SAY / IN THREAT OF BRITTLE LOVE
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At the Centro Administrativo del Poder Ejecutivo y Judicial General Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca City, 1925 by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Questionable poetry by the great modernist Gulliver S. Gulliver. Commentary by Tark Mackintosh.
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The Silver Screen by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Bad poetry by the great modernist Gulliver S. Gulliver. Commentary by Tark Mackintosh.
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‘in the sad bin of dusters be’
One of the angriest members of Los Decepcionados, f. f. francés led a truly checkered life as poet, revolutionary, and renegado.
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‘Gulliver Soles’ by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Like so many of GSG’s later works, it is a difficult poem to read out loud due to the preponderance of homonyms.
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Raw ponies nuzzling at the baubled grony: a terrible poem by Topiary Arrubdaquiri
Commentary by Tark Mackintosh
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Rhubarb by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Don Rococo knew exactly who Tammy Henson was, and had had her in his sights for some time.
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The Theme of the Week Is What to Do When Your Bestie Reaps The Lost Souls Of Your Immediate Family
When it started back in late October of 2024, this reaping of lost souls, you shrugged it off as one of Derek’s little quirks.
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GORKO IS GAME FOR THE NEW YEAR
Let The Gorko help you make the final festivities of your year the most memorable.
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EVEN MORE GORKO GAMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS
The blindfolded player then has five seconds to lick the Fresh Magic Pad™ and determine the correct flavor (sweet, sour, or ‘finger’).
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MORE GORKO GAMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Three new games that are guaranteed to get people talking about what is going on at your place in Peoria.
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The Theme of the Week is When A Boy Named Kevin Almost Drinks From Your Martini
You straight up missed the chance of a lifetime, hon.
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Was Professor Stout in fact Hermann Goering?
He began claiming that he had adopted the German accent in order to more quickly pick up the German language.
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The Theme of the Week is Mascara
But why do you have to blacken the lashes, too, as you ride the number 18 bus downtown?
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The Theme of the Week is Missing: Lost At The Zoo
Little David Greener, of course, generally goes missing in the Snake House.
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The Theme of the Week is UAPs
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (U.A.P.) is the Pentagon’s latest working acronym for ‘submerged and trans-medium objects,’ replacing the antiquated term Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O.).
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Was Professor Stout in fact the famous modernist poet Gulliver S. Gulliver?
Had GSG been hiding out in California, pretending to be a dumpy, down-and-out literature professor?
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The Theme of the Week is Tessellation Nation
This hurly-burly can best be described by this week’s Theme: we have in effect become a Tessellation Nation.
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‘AN ODE TO JERKIN AND JERKIN OFF, A JADED JOURNEY SPENT JERKIN OFF, OR JUST ‘JERKIN OFF’, IF THAT’S YOUR THING’ by G.M.H. Thompson
He is home, takin his jerkin off, in the parlor, after he came in.
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what the poets are doin’: 5 poems by dirt hogg sauvage respectfully
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The Theme of the Week is Leprechauns Jump Up In My Belfry
Rude and naughty are these Leprechauns Up In My Belfry.
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Was Professor Stout in fact the ‘On the Dog’ poet?
This is essentially the kind of poem that would mention flowers.
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OFFICIAL RETRACTION: ‘Gazelle of unfended Láatsi’ by John Kucera
The only authorized English translation, by our own Tark Mackintosh, was also published in The Gorko in February 2022. We so stupid!
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The Theme of the Week is Super Bowl XXXI
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Desmond Howard set a kickoff return yard record of 99 yards, And so did not you!
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‘In A Station of the Metro’ by John Kucera
John Kucera (aka Mister Siepkes) is a serial plagiarist best known for ripping off ‘In the Fifth Month of Lockdown I Plant Clematis’ by John Minczeski.
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New Tark Mackintosh commentary ‘Gazelle of Unfended Láatsi’ now available
Huge congratulations to sometime Gorko contributor Tark on his new Gulliver S. Gulliver commentary. Always amazing to see Gorko contributors having success out there!!
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PIERRE MASTERS: SELECT TWITTER LOG OF A TWIT
Wrote PIERRE MASTERS: Poignant, moving, troubling, depth of expression in P.F. MASTERS’ latest poem ‘Caoutchouc’, up at Split Chest Lit.
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‘Log, Lead, Latitude, Lookout’ by Professor Stout (writing as Mr. Heustis)
With a trite, redundant, and yet undeniably true aphorism Professor Stout begins his third Sea Poem, writing again as Mister Heustis.
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The Theme of the Week is Mad Scientist Clones Man Puppet
The real monster in this week’s theme in the Mad Scientist.
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‘The Kingdom of Home’ by Professor Stout (writing as Mr. Heustis)
Perhaps there is a clever code embedded in this line whose meaning the intervening years have obscured.
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The Theme of the Week is Chickadees Inside Our Damn Bonnet
The Chickadees seem determined to defend their turf, which is the top of our head.
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The Theme of the Week is Lucky Breaks
Lucky Breaks always happen when things are looking bleakest, as in your life now.
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Excerpt: ‘Toby’s Heart, It Beats For One’ by Uncle Toby
A girl he loves, his precious sun Her eyes like petals, soft and bright
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Poet’s Corner: ‘Premium Steel Plow’ by Allen Bours
Commentary by Tark Mackintosh folded arms The poet immediately sets the stage: Young Men’s Library Association members in tweed with crossed arms (never akimbo) prowl the streets of San Joaquin after imbibing deliciousness in the form of fruity beverages prepared…
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‘Her Crown of Glory’ by Arthur J. Burdick
A poem entirely about this one chick’s hair. Who was Arthur J. Burdick but at heart a man?
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YOU KNOW I LIKE MY GIRLS A LITTLE BIT OLDER
Josie’s on a vacation far away so come on over and talk it over. There are a lot of things I want to talk to you about, for example how I like my girls a little bit older. I just…
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‘The Basket-Maker’ by Arthur J. Burdick
Everyone knows that all men who published poetry between July 1908 and September 1913 in The Cleveland Guardian had only one thing on their mind.
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‘Gazelle of Unfended Láatsi’ by Antonio Bodega-Palabra
SHOULD WE NEVER SPEAK WHAT WE SAY / IN THREAT OF BRITTLE LOVE
