A's 'For A Faceful of Dolors.'
Ad interim, B is ‘for Beto for verse.’
C...? C's ‘for cryin' -- nowt loud nor nowt terse.’
Meantime, D’s 'for Drumpf's fo(u)r-door'd Ford hearse.'
E is ‘for "End Sick Pathology!"’
And, for now, F's 'fo(u)r fifths gin, fo(u)r fifths Jello.'
G...? G's ‘forgetting that Carmelo's* yellow
(for Herr J's** a jolly good fellow!).’
I's 'For it's one, two and three strikes: your routed!'
while J is 'for Jon's son, the playwright.'
K forklifts forks from the road (makes 'em lay right),'
and L is ‘for love lost in daylight.’
M is ‘for me, my RC ‘n’ my gal.’
N's ‘for nuns: they are none of the'bove.’
O...? O's ‘for once in your life lettuce love.’
Meanwhile, P's ‘for Pete's sake, Guv, don't shove!’
Q is 'For Queen 'n' for Qountry!'
R is 'for "Rent, sailor! Lease!"'
S is ‘For such is the King Dome of heaven.’***
(Shh-h-h-h! T's 'for the secret police.')
U is ‘For unto us chill'd wrens are born.’
V is 'for very low cost.'
W's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls. ('Tain't for Frost.)'
X is 'for Xenofrost, gloss’d.'
Y...? Y's ‘for your ice, a loan.’
Whereas Z is 'Del (Forza) Destino.'
(& is 'for ampersand, naturellino…'
and my last denoumentarino.)
* NBA all stars Carmelo Anthony and Julius
Erving are referenced with Dr. J, misidentified
here as Herr J -- see footnote below.
** Not to be confused with Tintin's father
Herge but referring instead to the personage
encountered in the stanza following.
*** Some critics note a failure of form here,
while the author considers it the clinamen that
proves it's cool.
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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