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."
Poet Poe pens nonsense verse. "Plus...phun," puns Uly, "I disburse." Its gamut runs from spam to worse. The po'sy posted...? Poe's diverse -- most, postcards from his universe, replies to grudges he must nurse. My summary...? Let me be terse: a mitzva, mostly. (Not a curse.)
Monday, February 24, 2020
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Composed and illustrated in 2019, each verse of poetaster Ulysses ("Uly") Poe's illuminated nonsense lyric "What A's ...
