Cane pillar...? Rye grass -- tall.
Moral:
Overdose…? Comatose.
Cellulose…? Adios!
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.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Runcibl'd Spooner: From Cripples to Kellers to Kings
"...Yo' is my woman..." Porgy intones to
Gershwin's Bess.
Woe is my yeoman. Medieval farming
sure's a mess.
Moral:
Life's quite hard on Catfish Row.
Fiefs...? E'en harder rows to hoe.
* * * * *
Blind by May. This year's be unlike
others' Junes.
Mined by Bley.* Ms. Carla's "borrowed"
all my tunes.
* Carla Bley is an US jazz composer
Moral:
Bedimm'd be days of him who dares
to misappropriate my airs.''
* * * * *
"Nine o'clock an' all is well."
The town crier.
Ropes le roi...then sits a spell.
The crown tier.
Moral:
'Twill take a sisal to truss King Faisal.*
* Who's donn'd a keski featuring
a twill woven of sisal, perhaps...?
Gershwin's Bess.
Woe is my yeoman. Medieval farming
sure's a mess.
Moral:
Life's quite hard on Catfish Row.
Fiefs...? E'en harder rows to hoe.
* * * * *
Blind by May. This year's be unlike
others' Junes.
Mined by Bley.* Ms. Carla's "borrowed"
all my tunes.
* Carla Bley is an US jazz composer
Moral:
Bedimm'd be days of him who dares
to misappropriate my airs.''
* * * * *
"Nine o'clock an' all is well."
The town crier.
Ropes le roi...then sits a spell.
The crown tier.
Moral:
'Twill take a sisal to truss King Faisal.*
* Who's donn'd a keski featuring
a twill woven of sisal, perhaps...?
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