‘Palin-’ is a prefix meaning
backwards or again.
It points to pathologic repe-
tition, now as then:
“…refewdiate…,”(?) “…our North Korean
allies…”(?) – let alone
how Paul* goes “…warnin’ bells ‘n’ wringin’
Brits…”(?) (We should have known.)
* Revere
Palinurus
Aeneas punked his pilot in that
epic named for him.
Palinurus? Sleepin’ at the
wheel – and he can’t swim!
Swept overboard, he fails to drown. To
foreign shores he’s blown,
there liquidated by the local
press. (They should have known.)
Palindrome
What’s “Evil did I dwel; lewd I did
live”? A palindrome,
a twofer: one shouts, “Gotcha!” while the
other shouts, “Shalom!”
Both get you – coming, going. It’s a
freakin’ a combat zone.
And toxic for exchange of views. (How
could we not have known!
Palinode
Alaska’s gub’natorial load lay
half-towed, snow un-blowed.
Then Palin’s palinode* defaulted
on the debt she owed.
To Juneau’s gens her back she showed. She
split. Due south she rode.
Did ill her recantation bode? Of
course. We shoulda know’d
* A poem in which the poet retracts
a former position.
Paling
A paling is a fence, one built to
keep beyond the Pales
such neighbors as McGinniss, who an-
ticipates big sales
with bombshells ‘bout the Palins. Will Mc-
Guinniss tell-alls own
the soapy Sarah saga? Nope! (Mc-
Guinniss should have known.)
Palingenesis
Palingeneses? Rebirths. (Think
Furher and his Nazis.)
They’re plupreoccupations of the
lame-stream paparazzis.
P. plugs her docs. P. owns the box. P.
tweets us from her phone:
No savoir-faire! Ma Grizzly Bear!! Big
hair!!! (We should have known.)
Palinal
‘Palinal’ means backward motion –
sometimes said of chewing.
Rearward-moving, as Alaska’s
absentee’s seen doing.
Upside-down and inside-out, to
opposites she’s prone.
She says, “News makes me sad…so I don’t
watch.” (We should have known.)
Palinurus
Aeneas punked his pilot in that
epic named for him.
Palinurus? Sleepin’ at the
wheel – and he can’t swim!
Swept overboard, he fails to drown. To
foreign shores he’s blown,
there liquidated by the local
press. (They should have known.)
Palindrome
What’s “Evil did I dwel; lewd I did
live”? A palindrome,
a twofer: one shouts, “Gotcha!” while the
other shouts, “Shalom!”
Both get you – coming, going. It’s a
freakin’ a combat zone.
And toxic for exchange of views. (How
could we not have known!
Palinode
Alaska’s gub’natorial load lay
half-towed, snow un-blowed.
Then Palin’s palinode* defaulted
on the debt she owed.
To Juneau’s gens her back she showed. She
split. Due south she rode.
Did ill her recantation bode? Of
course. We shoulda know’d
* A poem in which the poet retracts
a former position.
Paling
A paling is a fence, one built to
keep beyond the Pales
such neighbors as McGinniss, who an-
ticipates big sales
with bombshells ‘bout the Palins. Will Mc-
Guinniss tell-alls own
the soapy Sarah saga? Nope! (Mc-
Guinniss should have known.)
Palingenesis
Palingeneses? Rebirths. (Think
Furher and his Nazis.)
They’re plupreoccupations of the
lame-stream paparazzis.
P. plugs her docs. P. owns the box. P.
tweets us from her phone:
No savoir-faire! Ma Grizzly Bear!! Big
hair!!! (We should have known.)
Palinal
‘Palinal’ means backward motion –
sometimes said of chewing.
Rearward-moving, as Alaska’s
absentee’s seen doing.
Upside-down and inside-out, to
opposites she’s prone.
She says, “News makes me sad…so I don’t
watch.” (We should have known.)
