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Saturday, February 1, 2025

...And Another Thing...: Seven Miniature Four-Panel (3 3/8" By 8" Reducing In Three Folds To 3 3/8" By 2") Faux Exquisite Corpses And Their Respective Sets Of Rhyming Lines With Texts Derived From Puns Based On Homonyms To The Vocable 'Ex/Quis/It(e)/Corpse'








Faux Exquisite Corpse #1: 
Hex/Wiz/Seat/Corpse

Hex: 
Bright Pennsy-Dutch décor. 
Wiz: 
Oz oligarch of yore.
Seat: 
So soft when butts be sore.
Corpse: 
One damn cadaver.
 


















Faux Exquisite Corpse #2: 
Hecht's/Whiz/It/Corpse 

Hecht's: 
Defunct department store.
Whiz: 
That ersatz cheese you pour.
It: 
Part Bow,* part Addams lore.**
Corpse: 
Yes, ma'am: cadaver.
     *Clara, the It Girl  
     **The Addams's cousin It.
 


















Faux Exquisite Corpse #3: 
Egg/Squeeze/"Sit!"/ Corpse

Egg: 
What comes before the chick. 
Squeeze: 
Sly baseball bunter's trick.
"Sit!"
Command to Spot or Vic.
Corpse: 
Grand-slam: cadaver.

 

















Faux Exquisite Corpse #4: 
Aix/Quiz/Zit/Corpse

Aix: 
The Great Chas* knew it best.
Quiz: 
A small exam; a test.
Zit: 
No adolescent jest.
Corpse: 
press'd ham: cadaver.  
     *I.e., Charlemagne with reference to his palace  
complex at Aachen.
 













Faux Exquisite Corpse #5: 
Haig's/Swiss/Hit/Corpse 

Haig's:
"This stuff belongs to Al."
Swiss: 
Not unlike Emmental.
Hit: 
(But who would shoot a pal...?)
Corpse: 
Lost lamb: cadaver.





















Faux Exquisite Corpse #6: 
Aches/Oui!/Sid/Corpse
 
Aches: 
First fruits of one's malaise.
Oui!
Like 'si!' but en Francaise. 
Sid: 
From TV's Golden Days.*
Corpse: 
V'et (Nam) cadaver. 
     *Caesar (the comic 
not the emperor)

 
















Faux Exquisite Corpse #7: 
X/Wheeze/Zed/Corpse
 
X: 
Abu Kamil's* unknown.
Wheeze: 
How labor'd breathing's shown. 
Zed: 
Initializes 'zone.'
Corpse: 
Go! Scram, cadaver!  
     *A medieval Arabic algebr'ist

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