It adds to the tasks / Of a merry-man's place,
When your principal asks, / With a scowl on his face,
If you know that you're paid to be funny?

     - The 'Family Fool' Jack Point's song from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeoman of the Guard

Anyway, here's five different flavours, all intended to amuse.
     

HAIKU

Madeleine my dog
you would look so feminine
but for your whiskers.

     1997
     

CINQUAINS

I’ve dis-
covered a sim-
ple way of overcom-
ing the tyranny of syllab-
ic verse.

     1997
     

LEDA AND THE SWAN

Bathos: he just pinned her open and squirted:
no gold and silk and slaves and eunuchs
to show she’d been divinely courted,
and no sky-ripping climax.
You’d reckon a Zeus spermatozoon
came with a massed-choir rondalay -
was he as dud as that with Hera (and so on)
or just bad luck she caught him on his Swan day?
Afterwards, pique
was hardly to the point; up the duff
from brilliant or terrible technique
is up the duff enough;
but if sincerity's what cuts the mustard,
you should have heard her say,
                                                            You fucking bustard!

     1998
     

APHORISM

Being too subtle
only brings trubtle.

     1999
     

REFLECTION

If you’re drinking to forget
then according to my thinking
you haven’t got there yet
unless you don’t know why you’re drinking.

      2001