Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The poems are at once syllogistic, hard-edged, satirical, reflective, and finally as playful as love notes. The true joy of this book is that we are deliciously engaged in a "pantomime of pleasure" which the language and imagery generously evoke.

James Ragan

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The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
Food to feed the universe.

Roman Payne

Tags: satire poem birth satirical wolf roman payne roman-payne hope-and-despair

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He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

James Finn Garner

Tags: humour satire wolf fairytales politically-correct red-riding-hood

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While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

James Finn Garner

Tags: humour satire fairytales politically-correct

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The emperor is naked!"
The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted:
"No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

James Finn Garner

Tags: humour satire clothes fairytales politically-correct emeror-s-new-clothes emperor

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

Dan Brown

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Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

Paul Krassner

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Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One of the 2000 Terrorism Bill, that's all I need. Time for some reasonable force, I think.

China Miéville

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Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.

Angela Elwell Hunt

Tags: humor satire cynical-humor

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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

E.L. Doctorow

Tags: truth satire balance ridicule fairness bias

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