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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Papa…? Not!: A BotchuLit

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. 
One sole shows brane barf…very!
(Who credits that op'ning to Ernest 
savvy string the'rists caution: "Be wary!")

      -- Ulysses Poe and Anonymous

The Whip-Poor-Willephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam -- With Coda

Whip-Poor-Willephants combine 
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. 

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...