A Poet's Cornbook, Volume Two

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Question: Why did the boy poet introduce himself to the girl poet?
Answer: Because he wanted to meter.


Question: How does a poet sneeze?
Answer: Haiku!!!


Question: Why are poets always so poor?
Answer: Because rhyme doesn’t pay.


Question: What do baby poets play with?
Answer: Tanka trucks.


Question: Why do poets despise writing commercial jingles?
Answer: Because jingles are ad-verse.


Question: When is a carpenter with a 2x4 like a poem?
Answer: When he’s a sawin’ it.


Question: What do you get when you combine Robert Frost and James Bond?
Answer: The Road Not Shaken but Stirred.


Question: Why was John Keats always hounded by creditors?
Answer: Because he Ode so much.


Rimbaud, Bukowski, and Dylan Thomas walk into a bar. They are promptly thrown out.


Arthur Rimbaud and Thomas Chatterton walk into a bar. They are carded.


Sylvia Plath walks into a bar. The bartender says,”What’s cookin’, good lookin’”?


Alfred Tennyson crosses a bar. He is never seen again.


Gertrude Stein walks into a bar, thinking it was a bar. But it was a bar.

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