For short’ning, eat some Crisco, kid.
Your disk-shaped treat...? Nabisco, kid.
Hip-hoppy feet...? Greet Disco Kid.
Strolls Market Street...? The Frisco Kid.
New Yorker's treat...? Haunt Kisco,* kid.
Jeanne-Claude’s** conceit...? Shoot Christo’s vid:
“Wrap San Luis Obispo, kid!”
* Mount Kisco, NY, Revolutionary War buff destination.
** Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, wife of artist
Christo Javacheff, often photographs her husband’s
outdoor installations which sometimes involve wrapping
large geographical areas in a textile material.
In Dublin dwelt the Briscoe Kid.*
Recalling yet another Yid:
Stooge Larry Fine’s the “Fist Moe!” Kid.
Does he complete the list, though, kid...?
* Robert Briscoe was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Nope! Surgeons lance the Cysto Kid,
and blacks advance our Miss Stowe* Kid.
Cafés finance the Sysco Kid.
But these comprise the gist…no, kid...?
* Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Nope! Rest’rateurs serve bisque (or did):
soup sales, till April brisk, have slid.
And, though pervs see the Kissed Toe Kid,
O. Henry seethes, “That’s ‘Cisco,’ kid!”
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