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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Iso-initial'd Celebrities (Unpub)

   Aging 
Abigail Adams abridges Beau Brummel.*
     Bro
Brummel baptizes coy Coco Chanel.
     Couture's
Coco contaminates daffy D. Duck.**
     Disney's
Dew*** deconstructs Edith Evans: oh, well...
 
     * Some early mss show "Abrummels Beau
Bridges" here, but most are corrupt.
     ** Not Donald.
     *** Short for Dewey, one of a trio of nephews
presumably fathered by an otherwise unknown
Duck male sibling of the aforemention'd D. Duck.
 
     Earnest
Edie encounters facetious Fred Friendly.
     False
Friendly facilitates gay Gorgeous George.
     Groom'd George 
gropes haut Horoscopist Harry Houdini, 
     who
helps Inez Irwin "enkindle her forge."
 
     Is I-
nez introducing jejune Johnny Jump Up…?
     John
jerks Kim Kardashian all the way 'round.
     Kiss’d, Kar-
dashian kvetches. Loquacious Lou Levy…?
     Lou
launders Mae Marsh's mazumes* -- pound for pound.
 
     * Not what you think, 'mazumes' in fact,
designates, in slang, a certain monetary unit.
 
     Ms Mae --
not Noel Neill -- now needles Nick Nolte.
     Nick,
names notwithstood, oogles Oona O'Neill.
     One ob-
streperous Oona outrages Pete Postlethwaite.
     (PS por Pete: Jim* knows
just how you feel.)
 
     * Sgt. N. (“Jim”) Smithe-Magee (the N stands
for 'Nonsense') shares his military rank with Mr.
Postlethwaite's character in the British TV series 
"Sharpe" -- the hellhound Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill.
 
     Quentin
Quire's questionnaire quizzes rake Rainer Rilke. 
     R.
Rilke, Rolls Royce'd, rescues sullen Sam Spade.
     Slyly,
Sammy salutes Totentanzing Tom Tune.
     Totem
Tommy tips U. Udo Udoma's* maid.
 
     * Udoma Udo Udoma: Nigerian senator.
 
     Udo
Udoma undresses Vivian Vance.
     Vance vi-
tuperates W. Willkie. (Which wins…?)
     Wendell,
wond'rin' who won,* wrestles Xerxes XIIth.**
     Xerxes...
Yunakov...***...Zonk...****...and again it begins.
 
     * Does one "Win With Willkie," or with the other guy...?
     ** When reading these verses aloud, pronounce this 
link "Xerxes the Twelfth." 
     *** Yuri Yunakov: saxophonist who pioneered Bulgarian 
Romani Wedding Music. 
     **** Zelda Zonk: pseudonym employed by Ms. Marilyn 
Monroe in 1954.

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