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Sunday, October 7, 2018

"Were 'god's misspelled as 'dog's..." Gotts into Mutts: An Anagram Doggerel

Were 'god's misspelled as 'dog's (the words, I mean),
you'd spot* dog-headed items rarely seen,
hear sounds as howls (of hounds?) off curbs** careen --
profound, profane...if not to say obscene.
     * A veiled reference to Dick and Jane's pet canine?
     ** Another to the well-known admonition, "Curb your dog!"? 

Hear muted "g-r-r-r-r"s from Georgie's* motor-car?
That's napping French New Wave’s Jean-Luc Dogard,
who mouths, in sleep, Miss Mapp’s “Au reservoir!”
or so reports a doggéd NPR.
     * Georgie Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp are characters featured in E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels. Film director Godard, of course, is not featured there. "Au reservoir!" is Georgie and Lucia's customary farewell malaprop.

Professor Dogbole* spouts Hindu lore.
No "man's best friend," he proffers scant rapport.
He's based on friends of Forster's from Lahore
nor won't be spotted shouting, "Mrs. Moore!"
     * Pronounced in three syllables. Any good summary of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India should shed light on Professor Godbole and other elements referenced in this verse. 

(More doggerel to come, along with accompanying images: a work in progress) 


The Grateful Dead’s Keith Dogchaux

Kraft’s Green Dogdess Salad Dressing

German logician Kurt Dögel

Dogfather’s Pizza

South African DJ Doggy Podgy

Dogha: 2017 Indian Malayalam-language sports comedy film

Lady Dogiva

Portable DJ device: DogJ

Matt Pizzolo’s Dogkiller graphic novels

TV min-series Dogless

Dogman:  a type of charismatic guru in India

Dognosc: Croatian for dignity

Waiting for Dogot

Religious podcast DogPod

Book by McDowell and Jantz: Dogquest

J. K. Rowling’s Dogric Gryffindor

Off-Broadways Dogspell

Dogtropin brand of HRH steroid injection

Russian dancer Alexander Dogunov

Dogvin: IKEA metal table legs

Internet adage Dogwin’s Law

DoGx: medical lab in Madison, Wisconsin

Dogyssey: comic book coming to the big screen

Dogzilla

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