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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Beer with Lear/Wine with Stein: Edward & Gertrude Propose Pick'd Poisons Pair'd with Prominent Partners

Compari and soda 
with Abe Vigoda, 
Carol Doda, 
Great-aunt Rhoda, 
Star Wars' Yoda, 
Sister Clodagh, 
Cyril Svoboda and
Nino Rota...
...plus crème de menthe 
with Pius X.

Bathtub gin 
with Sergey Brin, 
Twain's Huck Finn, 
Anais Nin, 
Ho Chi Minh, 
Loretta Lynn, 
the Eskimo Quinn 
and Rin Tin Tin...
...plus crème de menthe 
with Pius X. 

A shot 'n' a Bud 
with Ashley Judd, 
Roger Mudd 
and Elmer Fudd. 
A lager 'n' lime 
with Helen Grime, 
Orwell's Syme 
and Teller the mime. 
Some crabapple juice 
with Clare Boothe Luce, 
Robert the Bruce 
and Bullwinkle Moose...
...plus crème de menthe 
with Pius X. 

Some muscatel 
with Little Nell, 
Doyle's Doctor Bell 
and the underworld's Hel. 
A Cote de Rhone 
with Drumpf's Roy Cohn, 
Al Capone 
and "Lois Loan." 
A bottle of rum 
with David Frum, 
Frances Gumm 
and Tweedledum... 
...plus crème de menthe 
with Pius X.

   (work in progress)

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Is He Dead Yet...?

 


Tears for the Red, White & Blue (Plus Two)

His MAGA baseball cap is red. 
Or else just hair sits there instead:
there's rarely nothing ON his head, 
tho' often nothing IN it.      -- ed. 

All cred he MAY have had has fled. 
His vices stretch from A to Zed. 
Most ev'rything around him's dead. 
How sad 'twas just his ear that bled.

He's sev'ral blondine bimbos wed. 
(I discount those beneath his bed.) 
"I say," says he, "stuff Hitler said." 
(At least Herr Hitler's said to've read.)

His endless ties are red as well. 
He lathers up with tanning gel
then tweets, "I EARNED THAT  PEACE NOBELL." 
(He, sadly, never learn'd to spell.) 

He'll presidential pardons sell. 
The Gettysburg Address as well... 
...and try to pawn the Liberty Bell.
No guard rails slow his march to hell. 

The business suits he dons are blue. 
His go-to...? "What would Putin do...?" 
Plus ditto Netanyahu, nu...? 
(He's also awf'lly quick to sue.) 

He blathers how his blood's blue, too. 
superior to "you-know-who." 
He takes Mohammed Salman's cue, 
and mimics stuff Roy Cohn would do.

The house he occupies is white. 
He'll leave it in a woeful sight.
He says stuff Mussolini might.
He really isn't very bright. 

His Pampers, large, are likewise white. 
He soils 'em, spoils a few each night 
while posting such outrageous shite
and sliding ever further right.  

   CODA 

Once white, the house now's gilded  gold. 
His lies approach ten-thousand-fold. 
His mind's made up; he won't be told.
I fear the center cannot hold. 

His Pentel -- like his soul -- is black, 
miswielded by the maniac 
who thinks Iran is call'd "Iraq"
and craves an ever-Bigger Mac. 

So: how'll we t
ake our country back...?

Friday, January 9, 2026

I, Grimmlin

I know no shame. 
My kids...? The same. 
I others blame. 
I friends defame. 
     I king became. 
 Misrule's my aim. 
My hair I'd tame.
The con's my game. 
     I "Hoax!" exclaim.
I cherish fame. 
"I'm God"'s my claim. 
I'd douse the flame.
     My brain is lame. 
The world's aflame.
But Trumpleswilltskin 
is my name. 

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Limn'd as Limerick: a "Lim"ited Dictionary

Lima        noun       /leé - muh/ 

There's this city, thought named for a bean, 
whose true namesake's now (finally!) seen. 
Lima's named for an oracle -- 
Incan, historical: 
Limaq -- a god-in-machine.


limation     noun       /lim - máy - shun/ 


limb           noun       /lim/ 

That branch of a tree we call limb 
begins thick at the trunk, then grows slim. 
If you're perch'd at its end, 
my advice to you, friend, 
is, "Do NOT saw it off on a whim." 


limbo         verb       /lim - boh/


     (More words and definitions coming: a work in progress)

Beer with Lear/Wine with Stein: Edward & Gertrude Propose Pick'd Poisons Pair'd with Prominent Partners

Compari and soda  with Abe Vigoda,  Carol Doda,  Great-aunt Rhoda,  Star Wars' Yoda,  Sister Clodagh,  Cyril Svoboda and Nino Rota... .....