The Armadillephant; Or, Farewell: Another Animalephant Amalgam

Farewell to Armadillephants. 
My guess...? They're gone for good, 
since I spied the last one strapp'd across
some hunter's Hummer's hood.

Papa…? Not!: A BotchuLit

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. 
One sole shows brane barf…very!

(Folks who credit the op'ning to Ernest 

savvy string the'rists caution: "Be wary!")

      -- Ulysses Poe and Anonymous

The Whip-Poor-Willephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam -- With Coda

Whip-Poor-Willephants combine 
prehensile trunks with song. 
These crossbreeds’ noses…? Serpentine. 
Their chirrups…? Overlong. 

Mulephants ‘n’ Molephants 

be crossbreeds, ev’ry one.

I’ll add to that pair Volephants. 

And now I think I’m done. 

The Gazellephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam

Gazellephants, despite their girth, 

cavort about -- have done since birth.

Big ears, big horns: they're proud of both

their size and their prodigious growth.

Addiction: A BotchuLIt

I wandered lonely as a cloud,
and now I, clearly loaded, use.

Excuse me while, before I nod, 

I these illicit drugs abuse. 

   -- Ulysses Poe and William Wordswoth 

The Crocodylephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam

The Crocodylephant is famed
for plu-prestigious ears
as well (for these he's most ashamed)
as crocodilian tears.

The Mandrillephant; Or, The Schizophrenic Chimpachyderm: Another Animalephant Amalgam

Tho' Mandrillephant's mem'ry's impressive,
his deportment skews borderline feral.
In a heartbeat his mood turns aggressive.
One makes nice with such beasts at one's peril.

R.I.P. Wm. Cody: A BotchuLit

Buffalo Bill's defunct,  
bein' stuffed full o' blac-... 
(Now where's that pesky silent k...?

I sorely need it back.) 

     -- Ulysses Poe and e. e. cummings

The White Whale: A BotchuLit

Call me Ishmael, 
a clam shlemiel --  
as opposed to, say, a mussel shlimazel 
(though neither's a kosher meal). 

   -- Ulysses Poe and Herman Melville

Frandaboo Bullydjinn (verses to come)

 

"Jethro" : A Partial Portrait

An incomplete drawing:

"Jethro" 

from "Damp Hen Days" 

Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils on photocopy paper

7" x 10 " 

by Ulysses {"Uly"} Poe