Po-Joke #13
Question: What did William Wordsworth mean by “a spontaneous
overflow of emotion recollected in tranquility”?
Answer: Puberty.
Po-Joke #14
Question: Why do poets despise writing commercial jingles?
Answer: Because jingles are ad-verse.
Po-Joke #15
Question: How is a book of poetry like O.J. Simpson’s testimony.
Answer: Nobody buys either one of them.
Po-Joke #16
Question: Where do poems come from?
Answer: Poe-trees.
Po-Joke #17
Question: Why did the traffic cop give the poet a ticket?
Answer: For driving without a poetic license.
Po-Joke #18
Question: Where do poets obtain poetic licenses?
Answer: From the DMV, the Department of Metrical Verse.
Po-Joke #19
Question: When is a carpenter with a 2x4 like a poem?
Answer: When he’s a sawin’ it.
Po-Joke #20
Question: What do you get when you combine Robert Frost and James Bond?
Answer: The Road Not Shaken but Stirred.
Po-Joke #21
Question: What’s big and gray and writes poetry?
Answer: T.S. Elephant.
Po-Joke #22
Question: What’s a Grecian Urn?
Answer: About twenty thousand drachmas a year after taxes.
Po-Joke #23
Question: Why was John Keats always hounded by creditors?
Answer: Because he Ode so much
