'Monster...? / Mr T's one!'
(Although
less of the
Magyar: more
jus' for thefun.
* * * * *
'Mitt Romney: / "Not my time." --
R'
"I'd an
Edsel be,
were I some
futile A-
-merican
car."
* * * * *
'Illinois: / Is I ill...? No!'
(Though Pe-
-oria's
playlist* I'll -oria's
gladly fore-
-go.)
* Refers to the old media buyer's
query "Will it play in Peoria?" (But is that
a question anybody asks anymore?)
query "Will it play in Peoria?" (But is that
a question anybody asks anymore?)
* * * * *
'Woody Allen: / a lewd loony.'
That old
goon married
Soon Yi. He's
potty, car-
-toony. (And
puny.)
* * * * *
'Northeast / has rotten'
winter
weather -- what
snows those un-
-fortunates
seem to have
gotten!
* * * * *
'Gilgamesh: / "I l _ _ _ ham, eggs!'
"Oh, me,
too -- over
e _ _ _. Please,
let's
fry up some!"
Enkidu
begs.
* * * * *
leads to
waves of trans-
-vestite en-
-listments by
Russian com-
-posers: the
subsequent
hazing's a
practice which
hurts.
* * * * *
'The Odyssey / doth (yes, yes!)'
say much
more about
Homer than
uninformed
readers might
guess.
* * * * *
'The Iliad...? / Ha! It lied':
‘Twas young
Hektor wholived. 'Twas A-
-chilles who
(Homer says)
died.
* * * * *
'America: / I'm a race':
See me
run. When I'm
done, not one
alien
dare take my
place.
* * * * *
'Napoleon’s / one’s pal...? No!'
Not since
Waterloo'd
laid our lad
(Elba's since
been his pad)
low.
* * * * *
But
don't
gun 'em...just
stun 'em: they've
left the pre-
-serve yet a-
-gain.
* * * * *
'Alphabets / a hep blast!'
Still I
leapt, having
kept not one
letter from
archives so
vast.
(More mageeks to come: a work in progress)
