Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley

  The camera shifted, so everyone moved to the left. "C'mon, Uncle Joe" I said, "get in closer." I smelled sandalwoo...

  My landlord is so mean and petty he puts muzzles on humming birds. On my budget I eat so many beans that I'm being investigated by the...

  I'm always out of focus/and my view is never clear/my brain has turned to latex/and my nerves to mold, I fear/I think a moth or beetle...

  It all started as I turned the corner going home from Fresh Market. It's a blind corner, and a girl on a bike nearly crashed into me a...

  all the world loves taxes/loves to pay 'em through the nose/global corporations/love to work those ratios/but after you have taxed ...

  A Labrador knows if you're sick/their able noses do the trick/so when you travel, without fail/see if the Lab does wag its tail/cuz if...

  I was raking up ghosts from under my ghost tree; they fell throughout the  year, not just in autumn. After filling several black plastic b...

  Vaccination papers mean a schooner of free beer/for those Minnesotans who enjoy some liquid cheer/Pity the teetotaler, who doesn't get...

  Hello.  My name is Tim Torkildson. Many of you know me through my humorous verses that have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Stree...

  Let us build a cottage sweet/where they plant the sugar beet/out in country so remote/your nearest neighbor is a goat/once the internet...