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Sunday, July 11, 2021

Ev'ryone's '-ster'ing (Unpub)

     Gott: sogar die maus!
 
Auster pens novels, pure post-modern stuff.
Bluster of Doodyville’s grumpy ‘n’ gruff.
Custer claims fame just for taking a stand
Dumpster…? Where half of the planet’s meals land.
 
Easter: He’s risen…? Let’s color some eggs.
Forster: his novels, as film scripts, have legs.
Gloucester: Lear’s sidekick is Edmund’s old dad.
Hester (Ms. Prynne)…? One more good gal gone bad.
 
Ister (that’s Aethicus Ister to you)
iters the Cosmographia. (Who knew…?)
Hieronymus author’d this erudite coup.
“Jester, The Court,” jaws of “brew that is true.”
 
Kapellmeisters’ keisters grow fat (all that sittin’).
Lester of Leicester's with lobster legs smitten.
Munsters are monsters, though Fred Gwynne is not.
Nor’easters…? They blow up the East Coast…a lot.
 
‘Oldster’ is shorthand for – si! -- senior cit.
Pollster: she’ll pick your brain. (Only a bit.)
Quaester (sic): Roman appointee (misspell’d).
Rochester…? Man Friday. (Benny’s excell’d.)
 
Sylvester Stallone plays a sinister sheister.
Twister: a cyclone. (Twinn’d twisters…? A “twice”ster.)
Ulster: the scene of some Irish dissension.
Vester…? “Of you” (Latin, second declension).
 
Worcester: the home of Quinsigamond School.
Xyster: guitarfish. Or surgical tool.
Youngster: some kid who’s inventive though tiny.
Iranian sage Zoroaster, in fine.

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