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

Herbert Walker 
play'd the hawk, Herr 
Prescott play'd the banker.
Jeb play'd pol,
while W,* y'all 
recall, play'd quite the _______.**

     * 'Dub'-ya.' ** 'Rank heir,' 'canker,' 
'wanker,' '(blank)er'...? 

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

There's Wade v Roe. 
There's Brown v Bo'-.
There's Griswold v Connecticut.
What's pendin'...? Me 
v Tweeledee*
in re that bouncin' check he cut.

     * Other mss show variants here; among them:
"Tennessee" (the playwright), "Park Chung-hee" 
and "Kenny G." One even shows "Smithe-Magee." 
(Tho' why would poetaster Poe sue an alter ego?) 

World Heritage Fruit, Vegetable & Cereal Grain Architecture Sites in Series, Series Four, Number Four -- New South Wales, The Sydney Hop'ra House

"New South Wales: The Sydney Hop'ra House"
by Ulysses Poe
chemical marker and colored pencils
on copy paper, digitally modified
11" by 8 1/2"

Who’s daft 

for draft

and Jo-

hann Straus

(compo-

ser of

Die Fle-

dermaus)

must make 

a point 

to, with 

his spouse,

drop by 

the Syd-

ney Hop-

‘ra House.