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Thursday, April 4, 2024

Walternatives; Or, Perhaps Our Faults Aren't In Our Stars But Hinge Upon Our Avatars

     Walter 
Disney draws a rodent. 
     Walter 
Lantz...? He draws a bird. 
     Walter 
Kelly draws a swampful -- 
     feather'd, 
weather'd, scaled 'n' furr'd. 
     Walter 
Carr draws souls of black folk, 
     folk who 
look a lot like him. 
     Walter 
Simonson draws Thor,
     performs the 
chore with nimble vim. 
     Walter 
Handelsman draws pols
     as well as 
Pulitzer's applause. 
     And Mc-
Dougall, Walter, draws, 
     with L. Frank's 
aid, oddballs from Oz. 
     There've been 
so-o-o few unsuccessful 'toons
     from 
fellas nicknamed Walt.
     If 
my 'toons fail but I'm call'd Dale,
     how's 
such defeat my fault...?

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...