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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

I Can't Get Past The Hair




This image will grace the cover 
of Ulysses Poe's newest collection 
of Nonsense. The book will be 
called I Can't Get Past The Hair.

Nursery Rhyme Conflation: The Muffin Man and Simple Simon

HUAC's hacks would muffins ban. 
Committee members want to know:
"So: do you know the Muffin Man...?"
(They claim he kneads subversive dough.)
Says I, "I know of no such guy.
He lives down Drury Lane, you say...?
I know a Symon: Sy vends pie.
He near the fairgrounds spends his day."

     (to be continued)

Nursery Rhyme Conflation: Little Bo Peep and Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Peep and Little Bo Blue
sought gender switch as up they grew.
Lucky for them, back in the day, 
nobody holler'd, “Don’t say gay!”

     (A contribution from GFH)

Of Pontiffs and Potables: A Rhyme Spree

Each verse in the  poem  below selects  from two to four  beverages ("pick'd  poisons"), the  last- mentioned of which  is alw...