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Sunday, May 24, 2020

Runcibl'd Spooner: BYOR*

      * Bring Your Own Religiosity
"In hoc signo vinces," 
whispers God to Constantine:
the sign of the cross.
One tears, one fears, without one's beers.
One weeps without one's wine:
the cryin' off the sauce.

     Moral:
Ain't no "...hoc..."
without no hock.*


     * Cf. "Hoc est enim calix 
sanguinis mei" and all that.

"The Laughing Caviar"
Ulysses Poe
chemical marker on
copy paper
digitally modified
5" by 5"

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...