Four Seasons Total Doggerel

An occasional (used to be daily) Trump limerick. Iowa Writers Workshop grad. My profile pic is a gallstone, as is my soul.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

Of course, these animals are gonna destroy this.
https://t.co/mMTex8SwWk

[The Paranoid Style @paranoiacs]

Shirley Povich from 1962, with the most immaculate burn ever on the Redskins vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

Remember when Black Lives Matter activists said what they were trying to fix affects everyone, just Black people first? Remember when Black scholars said anti-Black policies eventually always end up hurting others? Remember when Black journalists said it wasn’t economic angst?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

Everything in Bari Weiss's memo is either false or ignorant. It's complete and utter bullshit.—
https://t.co/S5Vy6Ph3Nk

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

Fuck you

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

If a president can murder people in a tiny boat, for no reason, he can murder you and me.

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

A very great - and very bleak - Geoffrey Hill poem for late November

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

if conservatives care so much about returning to tradition they should be encouraging lonely and alienated young men to write hundreds of sonnets about unrequited love

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Two decades ago, amid the horror of 9-11, his comment to a reporter was to assert that he now owned the tallest building in New York. He hasn't changed. He will never change. He lives and dies as one of the most self-absorbed, soulless shitpieces to ever strut on our national stage.

[Four Seasons Total Doggerel @jeffj55406]

@JuliusGoat And if it's ballz to the wallz Walz to Walz coverage, so much the better.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

The Paris Review mourns the loss of Lewis Lapham (1935-2024). In celebration of his life and work, we’re unlocking his Art of Editing interview from our archive.

https://t.co/LWalOvjdPp

[Four Seasons Total Doggerel @jeffj55406]

@CharlesPPierce @paranoiacs Was that racehorse Speedball or Stewball?

[Briana Bierschbach @bbierschbach]

NEW: After pausing political contributions after the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, at least eight Minnesota-based companies have since contributed more than $400,000 to candidates who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election
https://t.co/9Bc1LOaLxN

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

It's dark and cold. Here is a poem about a small boy being kind to a kitten. Ben was 11.

[Justin Sherin @wychstreet]

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

[Four Seasons Total Doggerel @jeffj55406]

@MEASeybold @BacklistedPod

[Four Seasons Total Doggerel @jeffj55406]

@charles_gaba Well, it makes *something* harder.

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

Donald Justice was #BOTD in 1925. In 1954, at the University of Iowa, he submitted the following sonnet to satisfy an assignment for John Berryman’s workshop. Satisfy it he did. The poem appeared in his first volume. The account on the right is from Jerry Harp’s biography.