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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)

Aeneid Anagram Mania

I sing of arms and the man... ...not his farm and gas mine...  (This is a tale of heroes in war, not agribusiness and the energy sector.)