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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Still More Brewers: two more of an eventual twenty three portraits...

 








Xenophon 
with wine
in krater




















Lew Bryson
with whiskey
in shot glass

Papal Pap; or. Apocryphal Papas

     Here are several pretend clerihews identifying 
     a selection of antipopes, conclavists, sedevacantists, 
     sedeprivationists, mysticalists, episcopi vagantes, 
     quasi-cardinal-nephews, traditionalist Catholics, 
     independent Catholics, Catholic charismatics and 
     other RC pretenders.

     I 
David Allen Bawden
plodded paths less-trodden.
Calling himself Pope Michael the 
First,
this real estate agent, e-
lected the pope on Ju-
ly the 16th, 19-
90, by laymen as-
sembl'd in David's folks' 
fam'ly's small thrift store in 
Belvue, a small burg in 
Kansas, post which he con-
tinued to live with his 
parents until, in the
year '22, David's  
conclavist bubble got
burst.

     II 
Clemente Dominguez y Gomez,
whose perception was blatantly low-res,
is the seventeenth pope with the Gregory 
name.
Gomez claim'd to've received appa-
ritions from Jesus as 
well as the Virgin -- i-
ronical, that, since the 
former insurance man 
lost both his eyeballs, this
due to a car crash, which 
didn't, however... 

     (more to come: a work in progress) 

Losts & Founds: An ABC

     The Lost Ark Careless Hebrews lost the Ark  but Jones, a gentile, found it --  along with half a dozen nasty  Nazis runnin' 'ro...