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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

On Beyond Edward: Vier ala Lear

     Up the Duff 

You who've read about Derry down Derry:
Read, instead, of Miss Carrie from Gary!
Carrie skipp'd Indiana 
and tripp'd to Savannah.
No fun run, but (yes!) necessary.

     Scary Stuff

Have you heard not of Derry down Derry...?
Plu-absurd, too's, his frere...and he's hairy:
Having cut himself shaving,
this nut now's stark-raving.
He's bleedin'! Please: heed 'n' be wary!

     Bit o' Fluff 

 You who've read of ol' Derry down Derry:
 Read, instead, of a fairy named Mary!
 Mary haunts our back garden 
 near vaunted East Arden.
(Our Mary is arrogant -- very.)

     Two's enough 

 Most who visit ol' Derry down Derry
 wouldn't miss it -- his chokecherry sherry.
 Quaff a tumbler or two:
 laughs and mumbling ensue.
(After three, even thee may prove chary.)

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...