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Sunday, June 7, 2020

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter Y

When needing space
to park my face, 
but not a place prestigious,
I always hie
me to the Y,
though none tag me religious.

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter Z

A doze, a rest,
three winks, siest-
a, nap, a nod, a trance
is what's requir'd.
In short, I'm tired!
(At least one Z, perchance...?)

World Heritage Fruit, Vegetable & Cereal Grain Architecture Sites in Series, Series Five, Number Twenty Two -- Montmartre: Sacre-Coeurgettes

"Sacré-Cœurgettes"
by Ulysses Poe
  For-
get all 'bout
Iceberg 'n' 
Cranberry 
Beans; 
     skip 
Endive, Ro-
maine 'n' A-
rugula 
Lett-
     uce, Ra-
dicchio, 
Kale 'n' Chrys-
anthemum 
Greens:
     try 
visitin' 
Montmartre's 
Sacré-Cœur-
gettes!

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter O

"O beautifoo-...";
"O say can you...";
"O little town o' Beth-...":
each sports an 'O.'
(So, Deists know,
does "Where's thy sting, O Death...?"

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter U

Burmese PM 
(a 'homme,' no 'femme'),
their very first: U Nu!
U Thant...? Not so.
Nor Goryeo.
(A playwright, too: who knew...?)

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter M


En France, when yer 
address'd "Monsieur," 
those frogs concur: an M
precedes yer name. 
So: what's their game...? 
How d'y'all relate to them...?

Litany Chanted Over Schrödinger's Box

Is he dead yet...? 'Yes' or 'No'...?  All'd 'God Bless!' if 'Yes,' you know.  Is he dead yet...? Don...