The Idylls of Ubu, Canto III: IOU RUB

     Canto III: IOU RUB

Although I owe but cannot pay, I'll live to pay another day.
You can't pay either...? Join the club of deadbeat cads! Ah-h-h-h, there's the rub,
for ev'ry club imposes dues (I don't suppose that's breaking news),
and you drank yours at Jarry's Pub on payday last. Hah! There's the nub. 

Poe at P&P

 

   On the poetry shelf at Politics and 

Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, 

recent volumes of the Nonsense 

verses and illustrations of Ulysses 

Poe appear between works by Sylvia 

Plath and those of Maya Popa. (Missing

is his title One, Two, Many! Perhaps

somebody purchased it.) Poe's volumes

can be found as well in the store's

humor section, adjacent to the collected works of Amy Poehler.

The Idylls of Ubu, Canto II: RUI BOU

      Canto II: RUI BOU   

Hachimura downhill runs, a-scorin' buckets and "and one"s.

Within the Liga ACB, would Rui be "El Bou...?" Could be.

     * Power forward for the NBA's Lakers. * When a player dribbles past defenders while heading towards the basket in order to score, she is said 

to be "going downhill." * Making a basket is "scoring a bucket." * A single 

free-throw awarded after a player is fouled while successfully scoring a 

basket. * The top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball 

league system. * "The Ox" in the Catalan language. *Do we smell trade 

rumors...?