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Monday, March 31, 2025

Addiction: A BotchuLIt

I wandered lonely as a cloud,
and now I, clearly loaded, use.
Excuse me while, before I nod, 
I these illicit drugs abuse. 

   -- Ulysses Poe and William Wordswoth 

The Crocodylephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam

The Crocodylephant is famed
for plu-prestigious ears
as well (for these he's most ashamed)
as crocodilian tears.


Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Mandrillephant; Or, The Schizophrenic Chimpachyderm: Another Animalephant Amalgam

Tho' Mandrillephant's mem'ry's impressive,
his deportment skews borderline feral.
In a heartbeat his mood turns aggressive.
One makes nice with such beasts at one's peril.

R.I.P. Wm. Cody: A BotchuLit

Buffalo Bill's defunct,  
bein' stuffed full o' blac-... 
(Now where's that pesky 
silent k...?
I sorely need it back.) 

     -- Ulysses Poe and e. e. cummings

Saturday, March 29, 2025

The White Whale: A BotchuLit

Call me Ishmael, 
a clam shlemiel --  
as opposed to, say, a mussel shlimazel 
(though neither's a kosher meal). 

   -- Ulysses Poe and Herman Melville

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

"Jethro" : A Partial Portrait











An incomplete drawing:

"Jethro" 

from "Damp Hen Days" 

Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils on photocopy paper

7" x 10 " 

by Ulysses {"Uly"} Poe

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Rev'd Spooner Meets Rev'd Carroll






 

He sought to thaw  
each thought he saw 
fly, frozen, from his mind. 
He gazed once more, 
then, dazed, he swore, 
supposin' he'd gone blind.

What A's Still Not For: A Revised Reissue Of An Early Illuminated Alphabet

The 2019 original "What A's Not For," addressed to a boy and his sister, indicated one at a time to that anonymous pair not on...