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Monday, February 24, 2020

A New "Wind" Wannabe Book Review in Verse: Jawin' Wid Amin

Jawin' Wid Amin: 
Conversations with the 
Ugandan Dictator About Life, 
Love & Whatnot
by Gaby "Mugabby" Mitchell
"'Idiot Idi' 
coarse critics decry you,"
Ms. Gaby Mugabby 
addresses Amin.
"Submit me those gobshites," 
the dictator dictates.
"All've exited -- them and 
them's fam'lies -- the scene."
"So, Id': have you anyone 
new in your life...?"
pivots Mitchell. "New soulmate...? 
New girlfriend...? New wife...?"
"I confess I've no time 
for careers of such kind...
what with slaughterin' subjects
post robbin' 'em blind."

Of Pontiffs, Personas and Potables: A Rhyme Spree

Each verse in the  poem  below selects  from two to four  beverages ("pick'd  poisons"), the  last- mentioned of which  is alw...