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Sunday, May 18, 2025

Snarkstitutes! The Hippogriff & The Ishigaq

 
Hippogriff 

Poet Ludovico Ariosto imagines his hippogriff as crossbred between an eagle and a horse. Artist Uly Poe  reimagines that creature as the fusion of a stallion, a griffin and Senator Bernie Sanders. 
 
A horse-(no lie!)-'n'-eagle scion...?
Why should I care if
he's run to ground. I'd hate to hound
the hipster hippogriff --
tho' don't you think road apples stink...? 
You don't...? Whoa! Take a whiff!








Ishigaq inhabiting host 


Ishia are shapeshifters believed to kidnap (and deport...?), then abandon children.

Nor can I hide the imp inside 
(in fact, I lack the knack).
Be it too late to immolate 
my inner ishigaq...?

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...