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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

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...