Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley

The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Today's Timericks.

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  A tofu wrap will Santa get with almond milk tonight; his cookie days are over -- he must change his appetite. No sugar and no dairy in thi...

Gathered home.

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  Gathered home I long to be, now and for eternity. Final haven, sheltered shore; where my sorrows come no more. Bind my wandering heart to ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Today's timericks.

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  The issuing of Pardons is a presidential perk; even when that president is nothing but a jerk. Perhaps he thinks St. Peter at the Pearly G...

Prose Poem: Listicals

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  There may be a Santa Claus, but there is no list. I'm talkin' about The List -- the one that has the names of all those who get to...

At the going down of the sun there was no darkness

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  The scriptures say one moonless night this land was bathed in broad daylight. A sign that in far Bethlehem the Christ was born, all woe to...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Today's timericks

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  Uncle Sam says Walmart stores pushed opioids like cheap s'mores. Walmart counters with the claim that Uncle Sam should take the blame....

Prose Poem: The Inspector.

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  "No! No! No!" cried the Inspector shrilly, when I tried to hang a string of pickled walnuts on my Christmas tree. "That ite...

This life is a probationary state

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  This life is a probation, to see which we will choose -- to live with God forever, or His alliance lose. You cannot have it both ways, mix...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Prose Poem: Dead Sailors.

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  There was one too many in the pool. I did a surreptitious head count, just like everyone else. "Alright!" yelled our instructor,...

Today's timericks

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  Tuna salad for my lunch really packs a grody punch; people who then catch my breath will go into 'sudden death.' Luckily, with mas...
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