haul coals to Newcastle,
might you, pour moi,
amass
aardvarks to sell in
Abel Beth Maacah...?*
* The Hebrew Bible refers to the site
and a wise woman who lives there but makes
no mention of a live animal market.
Be these
t(hr)owers of babble...?
Blame (sob!) my bum habit,
my
culpa! But Boudreau’s* a
borderline babbit!”
* Abbie or Victor? The verses don't say.
Encore, Jorge Luis Borges!
Cor de l'Argentine eez Jor: "Heez
accidence enhances stories
cached een Chechen Cacci'tores!"
Once
AM added Daddy-O,*
droll DJ, to my "rahd-i-o,"
they
proved: extending feelers
yields emcees, instead of spielers.
* Chicago radio personality
Holmes Daylie (1920-2003)
Affairs of the fart felt in
far-off terrains risk ripe
redolence – and barely
visible stains.
Giggl’ing, one Googles “three
gaggles o' geese,” crying,
"Larry* 'n' Sergey*: ple-e-ease
leave me in peace!"
* Larry Page and Servey Brin,
founders of Google
‘High-
hat,’ ‘high-hand,’ ‘high-
horse,’ ‘high holy days...’
'high-'…
HAH! (A case of
“damn'd with tainted phrase”...?)
In-
voking my μους-, I (non-
Greek) sue for news: “Ανδρα
μαλαπολλ' εννεπα
μοι…”
Show A-
chilles...? No! Showies 'n'
tellies show Hellene Elle
Ilii* (Helen of
Troy).
* Genitive singular of 'Ilium.'
My me-
nage during haj during
Raj (just for fun)
stanch'd my
stutter: of "...jej-jej...jej-
june..." pals heard none.
Don’t
vote to tax Ni-
cola’s Delft or Spode.
Do
kick Nic’s knickknacks'
taxes down the road.
Aboard the
good ship Lolly-
pop, all’s good. (Such
sacch'rin smarm's the
stuff of songs of
Shirl's.)
Still, suckers:
cease! Please stop such
Sucker Suck-Ins!
Sucking leaves o-
bese, balloon-like
girls.
Your pharaoh dies, befriends my goat --
the pair grows fairly chummy.
Then Nurse and Momma make a film:
"The Nanny Meeps The Mummy."
A fool shall not for mongeese vouch,
but cobras choose -- so odd, so...OUCH!
Dr...Sergeant...chili...pot...
please stop! Put in more pepper...Not!
Quick! Go
east on the Qarghaliq-
Qaraqum Trail:*
eat fair
Bar-B-Q Coq...and great
Bar-B-Q Quail.
* The direction travelled -- more ENE --
between these two Chinese cuisine hotspots
All at sea in Seas Sargasso,
sailors soon request a lasso.
Sassafras's gas shall pass,
but schlusselfiedels…? "Such a ass!"*
* Pacé, Mr. Dickens.
Kitt's
kit...? That pattern’s known as
tattersall.
But
I’ve left torn these knit togs --
tatters, all.
I'd
figured I'd bagg'd me a
gnu, up until I'd looked
under the fur and found
you, Uncle Phil!
"Vav-vav-...vav...a vav-...va-v-...vavoom!"
(Hear, hear, this stutter! But from whom...?
'Tis Dr. D-cup, I presume --
she of the fabulous ba-zoom.)
Would you know
who...? 'Twas Woodrow
Wilson's widow.
Where...? Near Wicklow
West. What...? Dead.
Now...
when...? Which clews were
found state Sunday.
Whew! (We won't learn
why.) How...? Bled.
Mix xanthoma with rosacea!
What results...? A skin disease.
It's what -- when six xiphopagi
repaint the xerox room -- one sees.
To marry your mother
so many years back...?
My mistake (don't talk back!):
blame my yackety yak!
They sang
"Zizzi-zizzi-...!" yesterday and
"...boom-boom-aay!" today.
So: what
song shall zyzzogetons* sing to-
morrow...? Hard to say.
* The very last word, in South American
leaf hoppers and in my pocket dictionary. (And
the near-to-last word in this doggerel.)
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