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Friday, May 15, 2020

Runcibl'd Spooner: Roger 'n' Out!

"To Beer or Not to Beer: Hamlet 3/1"
Ulysses Poe
Original artwork in chemical marker
 and colored pencils imprinted on
circular paperboard beer mat
 94mm in diameter
Portray’d Lairds, portray’d Candys, 
play’d Gravediggers. Even play’d Rice.*
Roger Livesey.
    Our old boarder’s a jazzman. 
Plays saxophone -- tenor -- real nice.
Lodger. Riffs, he.

     Moral:
The piper unpaid, poorly play'd,
will, portray'd so, be made a poor trade. 

     * In the films I Know Where I'm
Going, The Life and Death of Colonel
Blimp, Hamlet and The Entertainer
respectively.

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Lolita, light of my life...  ...might fail to yell "Foil!"...  ...or opt to yell "Epee!" -- she's just that unpredic...