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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Warum...? (11)

We're aware of a Houyhnhnm named Willem
(call'd by women wits 'Wim' on a whim).
Not since Dickens's Tim
or that Kipling kid Kim
had we had us a homeboy like him.

When abortionists, willin' to kill 'im
(bein' dark devotees of the tomb),
grew too warm, from the womb,
railin,' "Room! I need roo-oom!"
Willem moon'd, "Ma'amI'll miss ya. Va-room!"

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...