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Sunday, October 9, 2022

Junie Spoons

Trod the boards as femme fatale.*
Diss induced by alcohol. 
     Jane Greer / grain jeer

     * Some mss show 'gangland moll' 
for these final three syllables, notably 
pages inked by scribes who eschewed 
slant rhyme.

Mobs impress'd to guard our flanks.
Clara's chest...? Much better, thanks. 
     Human shield / Schumann heal'd

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...