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Friday, December 7, 2018

Hey, Mandrill! or The Relentless Baboon

Here be mandrills for all seasons, 
not one single also-randrill.
Here's Ayn Randrill -- &rill*
not gavottes but allemand'rills.
"Bar, Bar, Bar...Bar, Bar'bra Anndrill!"
bays a Barbary Streisandrill.
     * Pronounced 'am-per-san-drill.'

B. Obama's "Yes We Candrill."
Honolulu's Charlie Chandrill.
Ariel and Calibandrill.
"Hopa!" carps Carmen Mirandrill.
Harry Caray's play-by-play 
cues H. Cosell (the colormandrill).

Where's this heading? Disneylandrill!
Who'll you hear? Duran Durandrill,
Broadway legend E. Mermandrill!
(Your announcer? Ed McMa'andrill.)

All the rage? The age medieval 
and its heavy "Everymandrill."
(Who'll direct? Elia Kazan will.)

Christ says, "Love thy fellowmandrill."
"Friends, Romandrills...countrymendrill," 
barks Marc Antony. (Just thendrill,
"Gr-r-r-r!" growls Be'wulf's gorgon, Grendrill.)

Harry S (a true Trumandrill):
"Buck stop here!" (He's his own mandrill.)
It's a mandrill's world? "No, ma'am," 
rants Helen Reddy "I'm (Wo)mandrill!"

Joke: "A rabbi, priest, and mandrill 
walk into a bar and grilldrill..."
Johnny Cash (Mandrill in Black):
John loves Country and the Classics. 
His voice? Deep and never shrilldrill. 
"Bring Johanndrill S'bastian back!"

Here's King Solomandrill's Mines,
the Ku Klux Klandrill's monkeyshines, 
a leading mandrill's op'ning lines,
The Laughing Mandrill’s R. van Rijn's.

On deck? Yankee Mickey Mandrill
Mick's the mandrill of the hour
and our movies on demandrill 
calls for bandwidth -- mandrillpower!

Seed of change Nelson Mandrilla,
Psycho's queer Normandrill Bates,
King Wm. The First's Normandrill Conquest
"Tide: it for no mandrill waits."

Where's the Ottomandrill Empire?
"Mandrill overboard!" (Belay that!)
Where's our mandrill in Havana?
On the Road to Mandrillay, what!

Paul Newmandrill's Own Spaghetti Sauce,
French painter Paul Cezannedrill,
filmdom's Romandrill Polanski,
Captain Hook and Peter Pandrill.

Qaboos bin Said Al Sa'd…
you know: the Sultan of Omandrill,
pictured reading his Qur'andrill.
(Later, Don Q's Sancho Panza'll.)

Republicandrill Ray Millandrill.
Mandrill Ray -- he's Dada's chief.
And touch this "Rich Mandrill, Poormandrill,
Beggarmandrill..." bas relief.

Here, too? Judge Sandrill Day O'Connor.
Here be Musial -- "Stan the Mandrill."
Spidermandrill, drummer Shelly Mannedrill, 
stripper Sally Randrill.

Ape Breath In Venice (Thomas Manndrill),
E. Rice Burroughs's Tarzandrill.
Willie Dixon's "Back Door Mandrill" 
belies Nietzsche's Ubermandrill.

Take your Vitamindrill D
(the so-called "Sunshine Vitamindrill"),
sing along with Woodie Guthrie
and his all-womandrill bandrill:
                                                  "...this land's your

                                                   landrill...this land's my

                                                   landrill...from Anthro-

                                                  -po'dia...to the Fresh Kills

                                                   Landfill..."

From X-Mandrill ("You da mandrill!")
through "Yeomendrill of the Guard,"
here be no mandrills arch-conservative:
all, mandrills avant-guard!
From Zed to A, Mort Zuckermandrill
to Walt Cronkite, anchormandrill,
here be mandrills...black-'n'-tandrills…
caravandrills...fancy-Dandrills…
courtesandrills...spic-'n'-spandrills..
turbofandrills -- everymandrills, no holds
barred!

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