Published at PWWL years ago and
currently more relevant than ever.
(8/1)
It’s hot! (Tres hot: luke warm it's not.)
Ann Miller got it: "...too darn hot!"
(8/2)
Da's AC's shot. Ma's…? Gone to pot.
Cole Porter'd jot it: "...too darn hot!"
(8/3)
It's hot! (Think not…? You don't know squat.)
So-o-o-o hot one's snot tends not to clot.
(8/4)
One's nose approximates a Brät,
while lucid thoughts turn most exot-
(8/5)
-ic: dream scenes fraught with Lancelot
and Ladies of Shalott, Mahat-
(8/6)
-ma Gandhi, Andy Kohut, Lot-
te Lenya, diva Montserrat
(8/7)
Caballé, sheiks who reek of rot-
-ten leeks in oil of Bergamot,
(8/8)
or else Benoit B. Mandelbrot
(whose fractal "aht" I like a lot).
(8/9)
Be you quadruple bi-pass’d tot;
be you the Hoople christen'd Mott;
(8/10)
don pinstripe, check or polka dot;
inhab McMansh or vacant lot;
(8/11)
prefer weak tea or pepper pot
(if tea, ami, that says a lot);
(8/12)
be sri or sultan, late of Swat,
prefer straight lace or gordian knot;
(8/13)
be you robotic or karat-
-e maven -- you may need a shot --
(8/14)
if not, at least some bottled wat'...
("Some what…?" you query.) Water, twat!
(8/15)
("Oo-o-o-oops! Just the fluid I'd forgot.")
Who's else is hot (though Turandot...
(8/16)
is not)…? Why, Robert Falcon Scott
of the Antarctic: "...'Sbloody hot!"
(8/17)
Who else is hot…? Hell's Margey Schott,
pro-Nazi sot: "Mein Gott! Ich's hot!"
(8/18)
(Who else is hot…? Anwar Sadat.)
My cot, though in a shady spot,
(8/19)
feels, lately, like a lobster pot:
it makes me wish I'd got a yacht...
(8/20)
...or could lay hands on your garrotte.
At least, thank god, I need not trot...
(8/21)
...(tho' true, I do, more oft than not).
But why's it hot...? Have you forgot...?
(8/22)
America's a "melting pot."
In any case, there lies this spot --
(8/23)
it’s but a blot, a teensy dot –
a beauty spot quite comely…? Not! --
(8/24)
upon die Sonne...done! It's hot.
(Or, like as not, some knotty plot...
(8/25)
...of Aeroflot's, or, p'rhaps, Pol Pot's.)
Kool-Aid, it's said's, verboten: "...Dot-
(8/26)
-dot-dot-Dash-dash-dash-Dot-dot-dot..."*
Yet, 'til the Trane Man** states he's got...
* Morse code's 'S.O.S.'
It’s hot! (Tres hot: luke warm it's not.)
Ann Miller got it: "...too darn hot!"
(8/2)
Da's AC's shot. Ma's…? Gone to pot.
Cole Porter'd jot it: "...too darn hot!"
(8/3)
It's hot! (Think not…? You don't know squat.)
So-o-o-o hot one's snot tends not to clot.
(8/4)
One's nose approximates a Brät,
while lucid thoughts turn most exot-
(8/5)
-ic: dream scenes fraught with Lancelot
and Ladies of Shalott, Mahat-
(8/6)
-ma Gandhi, Andy Kohut, Lot-
te Lenya, diva Montserrat
(8/7)
Caballé, sheiks who reek of rot-
-ten leeks in oil of Bergamot,
(8/8)
or else Benoit B. Mandelbrot
(whose fractal "aht" I like a lot).
(8/9)
Be you quadruple bi-pass’d tot;
(8/10)
don pinstripe, check or polka dot;
inhab McMansh or vacant lot;
(8/11)
prefer weak tea or pepper pot
(if tea, ami, that says a lot);
(8/12)
be sri or sultan, late of Swat,
prefer straight lace or gordian knot;
(8/13)
be you robotic or karat-
(8/14)
if not, at least some bottled wat'...
("Some what…?" you query.) Water, twat!
(8/15)
("Oo-o-o-oops! Just the fluid I'd forgot.")
Who's else is hot (though Turandot...
(8/16)
is not)…? Why, Robert Falcon Scott
of the Antarctic: "...'Sbloody hot!"
(8/17)
Who else is hot…? Hell's Margey Schott,
pro-Nazi sot: "Mein Gott! Ich's hot!"
(8/18)
(Who else is hot…? Anwar Sadat.)
My cot, though in a shady spot,
(8/19)
feels, lately, like a lobster pot:
it makes me wish I'd got a yacht...
(8/20)
...or could lay hands on your garrotte.
At least, thank god, I need not trot...
(8/21)
...(tho' true, I do, more oft than not).
But why's it hot...? Have you forgot...?
(8/22)
America's a "melting pot."
In any case, there lies this spot --
(8/23)
it’s but a blot, a teensy dot –
(8/24)
upon die Sonne...done! It's hot.
(8/25)
...of Aeroflot's, or, p'rhaps, Pol Pot's.)
Kool-Aid, it's said's, verboten: "...Dot-
(8/26)
-dot-dot-Dash-dash-dash-Dot-dot-dot..."*
* Morse code's 'S.O.S.'
** Not the great jazz tenor player but
the heating and air-conditioning maven.
(8/27)
...our S.O.S, it's still hot, wot!
Some cooler spot to plant one's "bott"…?
(8/28)
You'll find no tittle -- not one jot.
Say...is it me or is it not...
(8/29)
...just that much hotter since I sta't-
ed jotting down this Ode De Hot…?
(8/30)
It's hot! So what…? There's simply 'not-'
hing to be done...but kvetch alot.
(8/31)
Cole got it right: It’s too darn hot.
(Ol' Cole's a rotter: too damn hot!)
(9/1)
How's 'bout a cool September song…?
("September In The Rain"’s not long.)
...our S.O.S, it's still hot, wot!
(8/28)
You'll find no tittle -- not one jot.
(8/29)
...just that much hotter since I sta't-
ed jotting down this Ode De Hot…?
(8/30)
It's hot! So what…? There's simply 'not-'
hing to be done...but kvetch alot.
(8/31)
Cole got it right: It’s too darn hot.
(9/1)
How's 'bout a cool September song…?
("September In The Rain"’s not long.)
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