You'd chase fun views of northern lights?
Aurora Borealphabet.
You'd waste one -- two! -- licentious nights?
Explore a Bacchanalphabet!
An ABC with sage brush in its
hair?
View Chaparralphabet!
An eighteenth-cent'ry-age salonnière?
You'd tap De Staëlphabet.
Who’d brave an ABC with cheese
taste tests an Ermanthaalphabet.
Who’d crave a futh of females? He's
obsess’d! (La Femme Fatal'phabet)
This ABC knows war is hell. Ye gods!
Guadalcanalphabet!
Miss Abie's Seafood Smorgas/Deli?
“Mod
Squad” Dahl’s Halalphabet.
Armenian? Cyrillic? Greek?
In Internationalphabet.
Our Montreal Québécois geek
employs -- enjoys! -- Joualphabet.
Where letters flourish under stress
one finds Kilopascalphabet.
Where letters nourish one, repress-
ing calories? Lo-calphabet.
Where’s “Para toda mal y para
toda
bien!"? Mezcalphabet.*
This proto-ABC's from way-back-
when: Neanderthalphabet.
* The Mezcalphabet roughly
translates its motto thus:
"Tis good
when things are goin' great;
still
good when things are not first
rate."
Its E's for 'Earp.' Its D's for 'Doc.'
Its O's? OK Corralphabet.
"Outstanding...and they're
mild..." – 'cept up
your nose: the
vile Pall Mallphabet.
You favor glyphs o'er runes and letters?
Quetzalcoatlphabet.
You savor stiffs who moon their
betters?
Have a go at Ralphabet!
For barnacles and salps...
and oysters, too?
Sublittoralphabet.
South Africans? Alas, there's just
one choice for you:
Transvaalphabet.
Type 'h, t, t, p, colon,
double slash...'
Get URLphabet.
If you love tables round and
knights who clash,
you’ll love the 'Val'phabet!
Mmm...mmm...an ABC in cans
of Campbell's
soup? Warholphabet.
Oh-oh! Another -- in Iran's
"encounter group":
Xalaalphabet.
In southern climes, y’all take yer time
'n' all...
to drawl y’all’s
Y'allphabet.
An ABC for Jerry, Izzy...all the Zals?
It’s Zalphabet.
PlaysWellWithLetters is a blogorrheal notebook of Nonsense in rhyming metres accompanying often-inconsequential sequencial graphics all issuing from the hands and/or minds of Sgt. N. ("Jim") Smithe-Magee, amateur author/illustrator whose several books are available online from Politics & Prose Bookstore under the nom de charade Ulysses Poe.
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