For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
One sole shows brane barf…very!
One sole shows brane barf…very!
(Who credits that op'ning to Ernest
savvy string the'rists caution: "Be wary!")
-- Ulysses Poe and Anonymous
Poet Poe pens nonsense verse. "Plus...phun," puns Uly, "I disburse." Its gamut runs from spam to worse. The po'sy posted...? Poe's diverse -- most, postcards from his universe, replies to grudges he must nurse. My summary...? Let me be terse: a mitzva, mostly. (Not a curse.)
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
The Whip-Poor-Willephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam -- With Coda
Whip-Poor-Willephants combine
prehensile trunks with song.
These crossbreeds’ noses…? Serpentine.
Their chirrups…? Overlong.
prehensile trunks with song.
These crossbreeds’ noses…? Serpentine.
Their chirrups…? Overlong.
Mulephants ‘n’ Molephants
be crossbreeds, ev’ry one.
I’ll add to that pair Volephants.
With that I think I’m done.
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Composed and illustrated in 2019, each verse of poetaster Ulysses ("Uly") Poe's illuminated nonsense lyric "What A's ...
