Thought on the evening of 5/30/2020

     Turn your video on.

Harrumph! Scott-Heron 
wrote it wrong. 
Tonight I realized
that, after all, 
the revolution 
will be televised.

"Hogmalion USA"
by Ulysses Poe
chemical marker
and colored pencil
on copy paper
5" by 7"

Sleuths and Their Sidekicks

"If You Were Here
You'd Be Holmes Now"
Ulysses Poe
chemical marker on
copy paper
8 1/2' by 11"

     Today's guest posting comes 
mostly from Erudite in Evanston. 

Dupin et moi,

Dupin et moi:

one ratiociner,

one je ne sais quoi.

Mr. Keene, Mike,

Mr. Keene, Mike:

one tracer of persons,

one stage-Irish tyke. 

Brown ’n’ Flambeau,
Brown ’n’ Flambeau:
one nondescript cleric,
one thief cum chateau.

Joe and/or Frank,
Joe and/or Frank:
one total cipher,
one complete blank. 


Carrados ’n’ Louis,
Carrados ’n’ Louis:
one stone cold blind,
one brief; then...blooey!

Spade ’n’ Archer,

Spade ’n’ Archer,

one gets the dingus,

one takes departure.

     
     With a pair of variants 
(one present tense, one past)
from PlaysWell's editor:

Archer ‘n’ Spade,

Archer ‘n’ Spade:

one draws the dingus,

one death, I’m afraid.

Archer ‘n’ Spade,

Archer ‘n’ Spade:

one bagg'd a birdie,

one Brigid waylay’d.