Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley
The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Photo Essay: Torku from my walk today.
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My country, right or wrong -- but usually in the muddle. what do you hear from the mountains? I looked into my soul and saw nothing but pl...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Today's Timericks. (Featuring an NFT!)
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Vaccination passports are a coming thing, I guess/even though they're causing the Right Wing a lot of stress/If you prove you're p...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Prose Poem: I'll throw in the teakwood furniture.
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There's an Asian woman lying on my bed. I don't know who she is or how she got into my house and into my bedroom. I've been ho...
Sunday, April 4, 2021
Rock and Flower.
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Rock and flower both agree there is nothing here to see; yet it seems that destiny made this scene for poetry. Yet confess I must sadly th...
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Today's Timericks. (Now Featuring Matt Gaetz!)
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Deliver me some pizza/deliver me some fries/and while you go about it/send sixteen apple pies/There's nothing like calzone/while watch...
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Today's Timericks. (Featuring Genghis Khan!)
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There once was a President Biden/who money was always providin'/to fix all the roads/and public commodes/despite all the GOP's chi...
Break forth into singing, O mountains!
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The mountains shout; the valleys sing -- to celebrate their hallowed king. We, too, know of this great report: that Christ the claims of d...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Prose Poem: The Terrible Secret in the Garage.
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At the age of fifty-five I decided to run away from the circus and join a home. I packed enough cotton candy to last me for a week and sn...
My God shall be my strength.
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My God shall be my strength; his might he shares with me, when I obey his will with true sincerity. His spirit speaks of love; of comfort,...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Where are the cranks of yesteryear?
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Where are the cranks of yesteryear; the ones we jeered but did not fear? Without a cyber platform stand they rattled folk throughout the l...
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