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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.

The Dulliad of Sappho of Atlantis

Sing to me, O Muse,  but not of Wand'ring Jews, nor Ulysses, late of Troy, nor Anchises, or his boy. Sing of one instead  who never left...