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Sunday, January 30, 2022

One Fine Day at an Uptown Eatery (Past)

"Where's your dessert cart...?
Please, bring it!" I say.
"I hear Berries St. Edmond's 
on offer today.
Gone...? A spoonerful, then,
of your Soubarb Rouffle!
That's gone, too...? Oy vay! Okay: 
three cafes au lait."

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Lolita, light of my life...  ...might fail to yell "Foil!"...  ...or opt to yell "Epee!" -- she's just that unpredic...