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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

"The Weather Lady's waving..." Climate Changes; or, Tilaka Toccata: A Nonsense in Meter & Rhyme

The Weather Lady’s wavings indi-
cate, in missionary Hindi,
how conditions, waxing windy,
warn each Buddha: “Mind your bindi!
You have been consign'd your bindi: 
Be inclined to bind your bindi --
lest you fail to find your bindi!
(What's that...there...behind...? Your bindi!") 



Transparency; or, How Did We Read Him...? Let Us Count The Ways.

(At every appearance  of the word 'read' in  the verses below -- except the final one --  that word should be  pronounced /red/.) We...