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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Granny Anna's Anagrampage Rampage Page: an ELASTic et als tour de farce

    "In the 
parish of Sleat, on the island of Skye
     stands a 
column of slate eight...no: nine meters high. 
     In Pi-
raeus, in Greece, stands an andresite stela
     that  
shadows the shrine of the martyr St. Ela.
     Just 
south of Malay lies the Gaspar Selat
     where swarm 
lates -- tho' freshwater pisces they're not,"
     lip syncs
lady o' lit'rature Madame De Staël 
     in a 
breath stale with onions, tobacco and bile.,,
     ...then pro-
ceeds: "Oxford waterwheels, nourish'd by leats,
     grind the 
grain so at least all the neighborhood eats.
     Likewise, 
malts for the Altes beer brewers obtain:
    'May thou 
laste and endure, brewers!' That's the refrain."
    Asks her
priest: "Who's been bit by the vampire Lesta-..."
     "Cease!! D'you 
think an astel overhead spares you...? Nah!"
     warns De 
Staël. "You need garlic to borrow or steal.
     ' Salte that
bloodsucker!'...? Nope! Garlic's still the ideal."

     "From a
tsela' of Adam God fashions an Eve.
     An es-
tal houses Christ -- if His book you believe,"
     drones De 
Staël as, invested in bean greens and teals,
     in her
Model X Tesla down East L she wheels.
     These -- her
quotes -- via lyrics from E'Last arrive.
     That Ko-
rean boy band et als help 'em survive.
     (If you
covet more nonsense, more poppycock tales,
     consult
<PlAysWEllWithLetTerS.com> for details.)

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     Materials and minimal definitions; rhymes are
     consistent with pronunciation guides consulted online. 

ST. ELA: canonized Turkish woman   
STEAL: pilfer  
STALE: not fresh   
SLATE: metaphoric rock   
SLEAT: parish on island of Skye    
STAËL: Anne Louise Germaine French Revolution woman of letters     
STELA: upright stone column   
SALTE: imperative 'to salt'   
SELAT: Indonesian strait   
TEALS: several blue hues     
TALES: stories   
TESLA: electric auto     
TSELA': Hebrew for 'rib'   
ET ALS: several expressions of 'and others' 
E'LAST: Korean boy band   
ESTAL: Old French for stall or stable  
EAST L: east portion of alphabetized street   
ALTES: style of lager from Detroit       
ASTEL: arch of boards above miners' heads in shaft    
LEAST: smallest amount     
LATES: genus of freshwater perch    
LASTE: obsolete 'last' or imperative "Endure!"   
LEATS: several trenches leading to British waterwheels   
LESTA-...: reference to certain vampire (interrupted)   

1 comment:

  1. Your command of pop culture and the classics and EVERYTHING in between weaves together into a tapestry of poetic nonsense! Bravo!

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