Leon Freilich
- Location
- Park Slope, New York,
- Title
- Scribbler
- Company
- Ink, Inc.
- Bio
- Light verse is my medium
For the war on tedium.
Draw up a comfy chair,
Give a look right here.
What've you got to lose
Other than the blues?
Think of this as an app
To make you a cheerier chapp.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Crunchtime in New York
May 24, 2013 07:46AM - That Legendary Glass
May 23, 2013 09:23AM - Mad Menu
May 22, 2013 11:01AM - Impressionism Prism
May 21, 2013 10:06AM - In the Spring A Young Man's
Fance Turns
May 20, 2013 10:54AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Confession: I am.”
3:56PM - “Dear Mr Walrus man--as
my mother would say,
How's
Bayou?”
May 19, 2013 10:03AM - “Words failed
me.
Spinoza should
have kept his nose to the
grindstone.”
May 19, 2013 10:01AM - “Brilliant satire. Better
than 99% of the humor in the
New
Yorker.
This makes
you…”
May 18, 2013 09:40AM - “A flogger?”
May 16, 2013 05:57PM
Leon Freilich's Links
Crunchtime in New York
That Legendary Glass
So is the glass half-empty or half-full?
Why, neither. It's fatally cracked, and that
ain't bull. Read full post »
Mad Menu
The cashier eyed me
With suspicion--
I wasn't the customer
He'd been wishin'.
The diner sign
Was unelastic--
We accept cold cash
But not hot plastic.
Impressionism Prism
But what's there to say?
Neither could their mother.
In the Spring A Young Man's Fance Turns
For people and things,
Couples and flings,
Spring cleaning
Leads to spring clearing.
Going By the Book
Wally Striver watched his health,
Following all the rules,
Stressing beta carotene
Foods as good as jewels.
Net effect was energy bonus,
Making a healthy fellow,
Even if the B-C sources
Turned him orange-yellow.
Righteously most every day
Twelve glasses of water he downed
Till the aquatic month… Read full post »
Onward Righteous Soldiers
Imagine if Repubs succeed
In repealing Obamacare. Indeed!
What other noxious programs will
They take on in this holy drill?
Just might begin with… Read full post »
Mother's Milk, Father's Meat, Bird's Tuft
Dig in, my hungry friend,
If lotsa fat's your end.
Calories galore,
All that you can store.
Next time you're tempted by carrion,
Consider becoming vegeta
Plus ça change
Apple, Anyone?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Powered by lifestyle-changing new inventions. Read full post »
Crazy Diet
Tenses
You say you're stressed and tense
And nothing seems to make sense?
Your belly's a falling fence
Battered by suspense?
Feel life's a horrid pretense,
A capital offense?
Shrinks are an expense
Fit only for the dense,
And sanity won't commence
Neither now nor hence?
Life offers its two cents
As you hate the pres
… Read full post »
H2NO & H2YO
Yet the bathtub still gets his dander up.
He barks and cries and shakes and fusses
And eased into the water, cusses.
Bandy's greatest fear's the tub--
He thinks the water means glub-glub.
And yet when we walk him in the park
He seeks out one thing like… Read full post »
Stimulation Equation
When the economy’s starved
It needs to be fed
But once recovered
Time for diet instead.
And that at its briefest
Is the waxes-and-wanes
Of defeating recession
A la John Maynard Keynes.
Hankers Away
No place anymore to close your eyes
And implore for growth in your dollar supplies.
No occasion to whisper to yourself
An invitation to the romantic elf.
The well, or fountain, has been paved over,
Rock-hard surface, not even… Read full post »
When Shunners Become Sellers
For interviews like Streisand and Bush.
What could the explanation be?
The Devil's got no book to push.
Class Transit
No babies cheesing on their bibs;
No screeching wheels to pierce your ears,
No cash appeals from "volunteers";
No sweltering in your subway car,
No coughing caused by a lit cigar.
No need to park your automobile,
No spot, a thorough search'll reveal;
No parking lot… Read full post »
What Does A Woman Want?
Or so the sociologists posit,
Family Lore
Before and after marriage
Indefatigable rovers.
Along with these family randies
Were my many red-hot aunties,
Famous throughout the city
For needing asbestos panties.
But my best-known relative
Was a banker whose tactics were scary
Defrauding and ch… Read full post »
They Vent Thataway
Vent away, vent away,
Let your voice be heard!
Send your temper soaring high
Flying like a bird.
Sure to get dramatic results
At this fervid pace,
Guaranteed you soon will be
Burning red in the face.
Or you could just stay mum,
Not bursting
… Read full post »
Co-Op Doo-Wop
Under FEMA’s policy, co-ops are considered businesses and
therefore ineligible for federal disaster aid. -- New York Times,
May 2, 2013
--Business, I should say--
Ten dollars, please,
If you want to stay.
Coffee and some pie,
Tea and madeleine?
Risible Targets
Fun is fun--but what's funny?
Everybody knows sunny,
Cloudy and rainy and windy as well,
But funny somehow's harder to tell.
Yes, it has to make you laugh,
Even if springing from someone's gaffe
Plus you might go and guffaw
(Not so nice but within the law).
What then constitutes what's… Read full post »
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Law & Ordure
Whether the victim's woman or man,
Venerate the Constitution
As the fulltime, alltime solution
To the ills besetting the nation
Dating back to the day of creation
(The Tuesday before the Ice Age,
Known since then as the Days of Rage).
Asked to describe the Constitution
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HOW THE BOY SCOUT DECISION/affects my family dynamics
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Free Lance Your Way to Poverty
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Slicing Solomon's Baby: The Boy Scouts' False Compromise
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TWEETING ABOUT TWITTERING MY WANGER IN SPACE!
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"They call me The Beast," he says with a twinkle in his eyes
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R.I.P. Little drummer boy!
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Big Green and Big Carbon
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Kissing the desert "Goodnight" ~ ROAD TRIP!
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