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Monday, July 20, 2020

Show A Little!

Who pens such patent prattle airs a droll imagination.

Who covets Kim in “Picnic” bares a soulful Madge-ination.
Who chuckles “What, me worry...?” vaunts a gleeful Mad-ination.
Who votes for Drumpf in spite of Drumpf flaunts lethal MAGA-nation.

              Who howls at Hawkeye’s hijinks shows his silly M.A.S.H.-ination.
Who dines on sushi roll’d in seaweed poses maki-nation.
Who welcomes wizards bearing myrrh disports Three-Magi-nation.
Who pre-dawn prayer prefers exhorts a vig'lant Matin'-ation.

              Aristotelia chilensis knows a maqui-nation.
Who ne'er sails west without stout charts sows careful map-ination.
Who Sammy Davis Jr stalks displays Will Mastination.
Who’s nuts for Dallas basketball sprays avid Mav-ination.

             Who screens films 53 feet tall supplies IMAX-ination. 
Who's heard retelling tales -- in Welsh, yet! -- plies the Mabinogion. 
Who dips into “The Prince” wails Machiavellian machination.
D'you not agree: whoe’er he be, he nails 'imagination'…?

"I Must Dress / Mister Suds"
A shenanagram
in colored pencils on illustration board
by Ulysses Poe

Runcibl'd Spooner: Strictly Ballroom

     Aristotle famously observes: "Words are equivocal." 
Ps-Aristotle, reading the runciblosity below, agrees: 
“'Keen Jelly'...? Just a dram one takes 
to lubricate wild Irish wakes."
 
Gene Kelly:
God o' Dance, he sings in the rain.
Keen Jelly:
Gotta dance...? It stings...? Use for pain.

     Moral:
Some feet don't have it;
others have.
All feet, though, now and then,
need salve.

"Feet Possibly Requiring Salve II"
(detail)
colored pencil on illustration board,
digitally modified,
by Ulysses Poe

Hampdengrams

(Verses and images to come:  a work in progress.) HAMPDEN  DAMP HEN DAPHNE M.  MEAN PHD DAPH 'N’ ME  H, P, M AND E    …AND HEMP  Bandid...