Posts Tagged ‘poets’
Chicken joke: Bukowski
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Charles Bukowski: To go to the bar, pick a fight, and find a good hen.
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Tags: 20th century, American, Bukowski, Los Angeles, novelists, poets, wish-I-thoughta-that, writers
Chicken joke: William Blake
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? William Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
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Tags: 18th century, artists, British, English, mystics, poets, wish-I-thoughta-that
Today’s chicken joke queries Goethe in his own language. Q: Warum hat der Hahn die Straße überquert? Goethe: Das Ewig-Weibchenliche zog ihn hinüber. Translation: Why did the chicken cross the road? The Eternal Hen lured him across. I think this one works a little better in German than English. It imposes the rustic word Weibchen, […]
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Tags: 18th century, deutsch, German, German language, Goethe, poets, writers
Chicken joke: Rumi
Today’s chicken joke quizzes the 13th-century Muslim poet and philosopher called Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad ar-Rūmī, or Rumi for short. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Rumi: It was invited in from the road to the house but it clucked out some excuse. Now the chicken is angry with the road.
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Tags: 13th century, Islam, medieval, Muslim, mystics, Persian, philosophers, poets, Rumi, Sufis
Chicken joke: Bashō
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Bashō: The long year is past: Still I wander without shoes, Chickens in my path.
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Tags: 17th century, haiku, Japanese, poets
Chicken joke: Donne
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? John Donne (1572-1631): If a chicken hath crossed, this side of the road is lessened thereby, as well as if a dog had, as well as if a horse of thy friend’s or of thine own had, and therefore never send to know why, for this fowl […]
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Tags: 16th century, British, Christian, Donne, Elizabethan, English, poets, writers
Chicken joke: J. Gordon Coogler
J. Gordon Coogler (1865-1901) was a South Carolina poet-for-hire of notoriously meager talent. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? J. Gordon Coogler: The chicken ran off, out of fear to be cooked. She went crost the highway, but oughter have looked. Alas! for the Chicken — her demise it was graphic. She never […]
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Tags: 19th century, American, poetasters, poets, rhymes, South, South Carolina
Chicken joke: Robert Frost
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Robert Frost: Because it was grassy and wanted wear.
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Tags: 20th century, American, poets, Robert Frost
Why did the chicken cross the road? 