Light Verse

Charles Joseph Albert

Feb 4, 20171 min read

Beware of Dog

“Beware of Dog!” the back gate warns; a sporting chance is what it gives to burglars who choose to spurn it at their peril! For, who yet...

Charles Joseph Albert

Jan 26, 20171 min read

Rodent Dangerfield

Rodent Dangerfield was The Smartest Squirrel In The World whose receding hareline gave him the appearance of a Rodent Duval, and his nut...

Charles Joseph Albert

Jan 24, 20171 min read

I STAND, CORRECTED

As we walked in Manhattan past Fifth Avenue, I told my young boys the old chestnut that life is so much easier for rich men and pretty...

Charles Joseph Albert

Jan 18, 20173 min read

In the Fairy-tale Land Deploraldo

In the fairy-tale land Deploraldo, those fertile fruit fields by the sea, the frolicking folk danced the Baldeaux, singing fatuous songs...

Charles Joseph Albert

Jan 6, 20171 min read

Slouching Toward T-Day

The clock is ticking... the country braces itself... are we expecting a bang? Or a whimper? Meanwhile, here's another offering to those...

Charles Joseph Albert

Dec 26, 20161 min read

FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS

Yes, the Taliban try every year to kill lot of Jews and Boko Haram jihadists are said to be bad news, we know Bashar makes offers that...

Charles Joseph Albert

Dec 15, 20161 min read

MY UNCLE HAS A LOONY BENT

Here's another poem from the innocent, Halcyon days before November 8. Remember the outrage over the bizarre conspiracies that Fox News...

Charles Joseph Albert

Dec 7, 20161 min read

Highschooler Killing Time on The Internet

READERS' COMMENTS @ SNOWYEVENINGS.COM Whose words these are I think I know: he hates both the Obamas so. In articles where they appear...

Charles Joseph Albert

Nov 20, 20161 min read

This was from a more innocent time...

a few short months ago, the horror that we find ourselves in now hadn't even seemed a remote possibility, and I was able to write, in all...