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Friday, January 20, 2023

Poetaster Poe Computes or Wonk at Work

 


You Say "Potato" and I Say "Capsicum Annuum": a Sound Limerick

     In most cases, your second reading 
     will likely prove the poet's intended one. 

Linnaeus! Linnaeus! Linnaeus! 
Carl can knee us...filet us...decry us:
un-unsnarl'd, each expression
breeds one gnarly mess -- 'n'
I loathe how in knots our tongues tie us.

A Chary Choice

One playwright, world-weary...?  Sir Noël CowARD.  He not only penn'd 'em:  in many he starr'd.  A second top dramatist...?  Cze...