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Putrid Poetry: Day 10: Guaranteed to Make You Puke

April 10, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #10: Hyperbole Guaranteed to Make You Puke If you ever need to make yourself sick the night before a test         or a family portrait             or dinner with Grandpa creep downstairs to the kitchen after bedtime Discover your mom and dad k– k– […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 9: The Ballad of My Shameful Mother

April 9, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #9: The Ballad The Ballad of My Shameful Mother Last Thursday my mom could not come to my game. I felt floods of relief and a trickle of shame. My mom always hollered and screamed at the ref as I dribbled downfield and wished I was deaf. […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 8: The Bald Truth [Poetry Friday Roundup!]

April 7, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Welcome, all! I’m happy to be hosting a Poetry Friday Roundup during April–what fun! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I continue my Poetry Month sharing of “The Putrid Poetic Ponderings of Louis J. Pasternak, AKA Dr. Skullstench” (see right sidebar for more info) today with a poem inspired by the worst classic hairdo […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 7: Head Cheese

April 7, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Pasternak: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #7: Rhyme Head Cheese It wiggles and shimmies and does a slight jig It’s gelatin pickled with pieces of pig There’s a sliver of tongue and a big chunk of heart There’s a huge hunk of dark and mysterious pig part. It’s nasty!  Revolting! Disgusting to see! And I […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 6: If You Accidentally Swallow Ocean Water

April 6, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Louis J. Pasternak Poetry Assignment #6: The List Poem If You Accidentally Swallow Ocean Water … you also swallow: gloopy whale blubber broken starfish arms penguin poop dead fish sunken ships lobster shells and all the pee of all the kids in the world, even kids in Europe and Australia and Africa and including my […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 5: Shh…It’s a Snake

April 5, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

[Note from Laura: Hi, teachers and readers! If Louis were writing a gross poem about me today, it would be about head colds, congestion, crusty stuff, and maybe green stuff, too. :>(  Yup, I’ve got a cold. And I’m glad Louis isn’t here to describe it. Thanks for reading!] Louis J. Pasternak Poetry Assignment #5: […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 4: Pimple Popping

April 4, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Louis J. Pasternak Poetry Assignment #4: Repetition Pimple Popping There’s a pimple on my cheek and I’m dying just to pop it I was picking at it yesterday ’til Marty hollered, “Stop it!” It’s shiny and it’s white and I’m dying just to pop it Bran shows off his callus but he knows that doesn’t […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 3: My Grand Canyon Feet

April 3, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Louis J. Pasternak Poetry Assignment #3: Metaphors My Grand Canyon Feet Under a magnifying glass, my feet form a desert– sandy, dry, cracked deep slices carved out: canyons that held rivers a zillion years ago in the Great Foot Desert. Only sweat trickles through canyons Mysterious mosses sometimes grow there if I forget flip-flops for […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 2: Lovebug Popcorn

April 2, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Louis J. Pasternak Poetry Assignment #2: Similes Lovebug Popcorn Kamikaze lovebugs crowd highways, smash into our windshield, explode like splotchy white popcorn Miss S – Did you see my simile? Lovebugs look like popcorn! How cool is that? Louis, I am always devastated when I drive through swarms of lovebugs in May…such a tragic loss […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 1: It Begins

March 31, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

It Begins Miss Sweetmallow said we had to write poetry. I hate poetry. I like folding my eyelids back so you can see the wet parts underneath. I like playing basketball until I’m dripping in sweat and then shaking my whole body so everybody gets a shower. I even like to risk getting poisoned every […]

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