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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The Week of the Walrus & (GHI)

     G 
The walrus totes a golden goose 
which harbors hangers-on -- 
kid sisters (three), a parson (he 
construes the goose a swan), 
one sexton and two laborers -- 
their show so-o-o-o woebegone! 

     H 
The walrus pilfers half a loaf 
of pumpernickel bread. 
His cousin who's a harbor seal 
steals loaves of rye instead. 
Their ancestor's both breadless 
and ten million summers dead. 

     I 
The walrus (call him Ishmael), 
a former Isra'lite, 
five oceans sails in search of whales, 
most gray, some blue, one white. 
(Cetacea by walruses dispatch'd...? 
That can't be right.)
 

The Dulliad of Sappho of Atlantis

Sing to me, O Muse,  but not of Wand'ring Jews, nor Ulysses, late of Troy, nor Anchises, or his boy. Sing of one instead  who never left...