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Saturday, June 2, 2018

"Allied 'A's address Titian's..." Dopple Dreaming or Twigments of My Imagination: A Constrained Dualphabet


     Renaissance art notable dreams of working in the altogether.

Allied 'A's address Titian's 
absurd apparitions:
“Tish” dreams/wishes/seems 
to wave all inhibitions.

     Baseball's Berra dreams of visiting the Old Country. But whose? 

Both 'B's be 'bout Yogi's 
bewilderin' bogies:
this game Hall-of-Famer's 
abstainin' from hoagies. 
Indeed, Yogi's feed rests on 
plated pierogies!

     Angel (retired, Charley-type) dreams of failing to nix a gambling jinx.

Coupled 'C's conjure Farrah's 
cock'mamie chimeras:
Ms. Fawcett, her jaw set, 
hurls snake eyes at Harrah's. 

     Powerful dream persuades Al Capp hottie she's still a hooker looker. 

Duple 'D's display Moonbeam's 
delusional daydreams:
"Still fine," mulls McSwine. 
"Mine ain't needin' no face creams."

     Poor Bo, dreaming of future unemployment, envisions only umbrage.

Echoed 'E's earmark Derek's 
eccentric etherics: 
both show broad-boob'd Bo 
givin' vent to hysterics.

     Infamous foreign agent Hari dreams of heading south of the border.

Fellow 'F's finger Mata's 
full-farcical fatas,
wherein (note her grin!
wry spies pummel piñatas.

     Uncle in grisly "Addams Family" sit-com* dreams of hitting the confessional. 
            
     * Not to be confused with John (or James or William) 
"Grizzly" Adams (1812-1860), who also spawned a TV series.

Gem'ni'd 'G's? Glyphs for Fester he's 
gross with grotesqueries:
all will appall. (He'll 
confess just the less scaries.)

     Motown cager Prince dreams of teaching Geneology at a Detroit high school.

Half (four!) 'H's hold Tayshaun's 
hairbrain'd “h'llucinashauns”:
this Piston's insistin,' 
"My sibs? All ‘Alsashauns’!"

     Idiot Veep dreams of continuing to suck eggs, goose-type.

Idem: 'I's index thick Dick's 
inane "eedee fix" (sic). 
Agreed: when VP'd, 
Cheney zero'd for six. (Sick!)

     Calendar (Jalali-type) maven dreams his poetry's roundly pooh-pooh'd.

Join'd 'J's? Just O. Khayyam's 
joint jabberwock'd jimjams.
This Persian's "verse-'xcursions"? 
Per'verse-'ical flim-flams!

     Creator of Khingachgook (sic) dreams of failing to employ spell check.

Kin'd 'K's kindle Cooper's 
kookesque kama rupas:
Jim's Pathfinder spellbinders? 
Brimful o' bloopers!

     Lahore sage dreams of delaying enlightenment until tomorrow morning.

Let 'L's limn Le Buddha's 
lightheaded laputas:
nirvana's anon. Right now? 
Lime-Jello shootahs!

     Married man Massachusetts man dreams of scoring some illicit sex.

Matchin' 'M's max'mize Lodge's 
mind's muddl'd mirages:
Hank Cabot's a Babbett 
ISO "massages."

     Former network TV doc dreams of chugging rubbing alcohol.

Neighb'rin' 'N's notate Kildare's 
nonsensical nightmares:
Ye Doctor be crocked, sir, 
thus subject to bugbears.

     Okuda creature dreams of his own Trek series in reruns...forever.

One two 'O's? Only Bakula's 
outré oraculas,
airin' Scott's darin' 
re: space-time spectacula's.

     Political cartoonist dreams of getting his best ideas while dreaming.

Pairs o' 'P's portrays T. Nast's 
preposterous phantasts:
they'll fashion his passionate 
Tammany sarcasts.

     155-mph quick-service ace Andy dreams of illegal drug use.

Queu'd up 'Q's cue A. Roddick's 
"quite qwazy" quixotics:
So fast we're aghast. 
(Is Rod usin' narcotics?)

     Toys 'R' Us icon dreams of putting 'base' back in 'customer base.'

Rhymin' 'R's relate Geoffrey's 
rude, radical rev'ries:
this mascot shows tots lots 
of noir sides mom ne'er sees!

     Cannibal's sado-dream exposes his criminality as largely genetic.

Sim'lar 'S's show Lector's 
sick, stark-ravin' spectres
as Hannibal's Nana scrawls: 
"I ♥ dissectors!"

     Tour cyclist dreams of enjoying scenic French views.

Two twin'd 'T's trace Sir Lance's 
(tsk tsk!) tomfool trances:
Our star's worst bete noir’s 
when his next Tour de France is.

     Overstuffed and underfoot Pillsbury mascot fails to curb his appetite.

Un'form 'U's unveil Doughboy 
in unhinged Utopoi:
his dream? Clotted cream...
atop tow'rin' gâteau, boy! 

     Hollywood (and Vine) icon Walter weighs politics of a career-long type casting.

Vis-a-'V's? Views o' Pidgeon's 
vertiginous visions. 
Each movie's to prove he 
won't play Dionysians.

     Rudyard's white-man's-burden creation dreams of a primate chorale.

Wedded 'W's* wield Kim's 
wild- (-'n'-woolly) -eyed whims
showin' Jungle Guy humm'd to by 
chimps chantin' hymns.

     * Since just prior to the turn of the last century, 
'W' has been pronounced 'dubya' -- i.e., in two syllables -- 
and is so pronounced here. How fast we forget.

     One Caesar, in X-rated dream, dons colorful and pricey designer underwear.

EXtra 'X's [x]* Galba's 
xiphoidal xibalbas:
in trances Galb' dances 
in dark Marc Chagall bras!

     * Pronounced 'ex,' as is said when one’s ticking a box.

     Charlemagne's youngish mistress dreams of being sweet-talked...
yet again!

Yok'd 'Y's yield up Himiltrude's 
yammerin' yakshatudes,
phantoms where Chas hums 
flat medieval platitudes.

     Ms. Pitts dreams of Oscar's Ernest's true mother's dream of...
(are you getting all this?)

Zwei 'Z's? Zut...don't miss 'em! 
Z-z-zaSu's "zombnamb'lism" 
nails Wilde's prim Miss Prism 
in wild Freudi'nism!

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