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Thursday, April 20, 2023

All 'IN' & Other Meterhymes

     All 'IN'
 
GINger sINgs, "We're IN the money..."
The Duke's IN an INdigo mood.
Eve's IN-a-gadd-da-vida...
as INtriguINg as Strange INterlude!
     Ramsey is IN with the IN-crowd.
Billy ("The Boss")...? IN like FlYNn.
Bix, some INsist, is, INdeed, IN a mist.
(Me...? Count me out: I'm all IN.)


     Opaque News 

Bjorn Soleil was born today 
while Clyde Sombré has died.
Did someone say Bjorn died today...? 
Said someone clearly lied.
"Nor met Clyde Death: Clyde yet draws breath," 
another someone said,
but then withdrew this view. "'Tis true: 
both Bjorn and Clyde are dead."


     Better Part of Valor
 
Most discover whene'er 
they're pursued by a bear*
they had better, with flair, 
"get the hell outta dere."
     *Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Act III.


Spirit of '73

The Comstock Act view’d as salacious 'n' lewd 

peoples' mailing of tools of abortion, 

meaning dilators, speculums, catheters, too... 

and that’s but a miniscule portion. 

Does all this entail I must wind up in jail 

just for purchasing coat hangers sent through the mail...?  

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Lolita, light of my life...  ...might fail to yell "Foil!"...  ...or opt to yell "Epee!" -- she's just that unpredic...