Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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Pigeons

Pigeons land on statues
as though they do not care
about the figure they've landed on.
They only know that where they are
is better than on the ground.
For the sight they see is grander
as they look around.

Statues with the droppings
also do not care.
They stand in silent memory,
usually in a square.
They do not see the droppings.
They're unaffected by the stare
of people unaware
of anything but the pigeoins
that have landed there.

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

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Opinion

Congratulations you have won
Its a years subscription of bad puns.
And it makes your story our concern
And you set it up for returns
My opinions. mmm. mmm. (x4)
And there seems to be a problem here.
Your state of emotion seems to clear.
You rise and fall like wall street stock
And you had an affect on our happy talk.
Our opinions. mmm. mmm. (x2)
My opinions. mmm. mmm. (x2)
Congratulations you have won
Its a years subscription of bad puns.
And it makes your story our concern
And you set it up for returns
Our opinions. mmm. mmm.
Your opinions. mmm. mmm. (x3)
My opinions. mmm. mmm.

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I Am Your Convenience

Have you lost your wits and gone mad! ?
Those are 'my' friends you just insulted.

'I will admit to the going mad business.
However...
That losing of the wits bit,
I need them to hang on to for future excursions.
Besides...
If it was not for my wits,
I would not have been able to convince you...
I have gone mad.
Now would I? '

You are doing this on purpose,
Aren't you.

'Doing what on purpose? '

Trying to drive me crazy!
You want everyone to believe,
I am the one that is really the nut case.

'Hmmm...
Are you?
And you are the one behind the wheel too.
What else do you want me to admit?
I'll do it.
I just want to get home safe.

After you dropp me off,
You can go anywhere you want.
And...
Keep your eyes on the road.
Unless you 'do' want me to drive.'

I should have left you.

'And what would that have proven?
I am more popular with your friends than you are?
And you would not have had an excuse to leave.
Other than the one of you having a headache.
And it was time for us to go.'

You are an embarrassment.

'No!
I am your convenience.'

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G.K. Chesterton

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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I Begged God for My Life

I cursed the birds
Their droppings soiled my clothes
I cursed the animals
Their droppings soiled my feet
While walking on the beach
I cursed the insects
For eating flowers in my garden
I took a gun
Killed the birds and the animals
Sprayed deadly poison
On the the insects
I was feeling happy
As if I had conquered the world
I heard god’s voice
What should I do with you my son?
You soiled my world
By killing my
Birds, insects and animals
For your greed and lust
I begged god for my life
Promised him to
Treat man, animals alike
Preserve his world
With all my might

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Alexander Pope

Couplets on Wit

I

But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.


II

Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest
Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.


III

Some who grow dull religious strait commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sence.


IV

Wits starve as useless to a Common weal
While Fools have places purely for their Zea.

V

Now wits gain praise by copying other wits
As one Hog lives on what another sh---.


VI

Wou'd you your writings to some Palates fit
Purged all you verses from the sin of wit
For authors now are so conceited grown
They praise no works but what are like their own.

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

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Puns are a form of humor with words.

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Fred Allen

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted.

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Fred Allen

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

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A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

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Old droppings do not stink.

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Soaring the Sky

Soaring the sky with an Angel of Beauty
The Dragon protects his Angel’s heart
Flying peacefully with her above the blue sea
That forever his glory is the Angel a part

Soaring the sky with an Angel of Clarity
The Angel opens the Dragon’s fierce eyes
From his hellish surmise to her angelic verity
His eyes become calm, a wise Dragon begins to arise

Soaring the sky freely as they always wish to be
As the Angel of Beauty and Clarity is one of the same
As protecting his Angel is his priority duty
As each other’s heart and soul they forever claim

Soaring the sky together above heaven’s flight
As they sail the clouds among the ocean of winds
Where the blaze of their love burns eternally bright
As they feel the heavenly love they share within

Soaring the sky he flies with her overflowing loving prosperity
Below the full bright moon with a zephyr breeze
Because spreading his wings with her is pure serenity
That forever protecting and loving his Angel he desires to be

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An unwanted helper gets droppings as payment.

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Soaring

Soaring
Up in the sky
I look below me
I see the ground and the houses
I see the clouds and the blue, blue sky
I see myself flying high in the sky
Then I wake up and I’m in my bed
Then I know it was only a dream of me flying
And keep on wishing…
I could be soaring
Up in the Sky someday…

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morning fog...
warm dew drops on my face –
bird droppings

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