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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Beer with Lear/Wine with Stein: Edward & Gertrude Propose Pick'd Poisons Pair'd with Prominent Partners

A shot 'n' a Bud 
with Ashley Judd, 
Roger Mudd 
and Elmer Fudd. 
   A lager 'n' lime 
with Helen Grime, 
Orwell's Syme 
and Teller the mime. 
   Some crabapple juice 
with Clare Boothe Luce, 
Robert the Bruce 
and Bullwinkle Moose. 
   Plus a crème de menthe 
with Pius X. 

Some muscatel 
with Little Nell, 
Doctor Bell 
and the underworld's Hel. 
   A Cote de Rhone 
with Drumpf's Roy Cohn. 
Al Capone 
and "Lois Loan." 
   A bottle of rum 
with David Frum, 
Frances Gumm 
and Tweedledum. 
   Plus more crème de menthe 
with Pius X.

   (work in progress)

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Is He Dead Yet...?

 


Tears for the Red, White & Blue (Plus Two)

His MAGA baseball cap is red. 
Or else just hair sits there instead:
there's rarely nothing ON his head, 
tho' often nothing IN it.      -- ed. 

All cred he MAY have had has fled. 
His vices stretch from A to Zed. 
Most ev'rything around him's dead. 
How sad 'twas just his ear that bled.

He's sev'ral blondine bimbos wed. 
(I discount those beneath his bed.) 
"I say," says he, "stuff Hitler said." 
(At least Herr Hitler's said to've read.)

His endless ties are red as well. 
He lathers up with tanning gel
then tweets, "I EARNED THAT  PEACE NOBELL." 
(He, sadly, never learn'd to spell.) 

He'll presidential pardons sell. 
The Gettysburg Address as well... 
...and try to pawn the Liberty Bell.
No guard rails slow his march to hell. 

The business suits he dons are blue. 
His go-to...? "What would Putin do...?" 
Plus ditto Netanyahu, nu...? 
(He's also awf'lly quick to sue.) 

He blathers how his blood's blue, too. 
superior to "you-know-who." 
He takes Mohammed Salman's cue, 
and mimics stuff Roy Cohn would do.

The house he occupies is white. 
He'll leave it in a woeful sight.
He says stuff Mussolini might.
He really isn't very bright. 

His Pampers, large, are likewise white. 
He soils 'em, spoils a few each night 
while posting such outrageous shite
and sliding ever further right.  

   CODA 

Once white, the house now's gilded  gold. 
His lies approach ten-thousand-fold. 
His mind's made up; he won't be told.
I fear the center cannot hold. 

His Pentel -- like his soul -- is black, 
miswielded by the maniac 
who thinks Iran is call'd "Iraq"
and craves an ever-Bigger Mac. 

So: how'll we t
ake our country back...?

Friday, January 9, 2026

I, Grimmlin

I know no shame. 
My kids...? The same. 
I others blame. 
I friends defame. 
     I king became. 
 Misrule's my aim. 
My hair I'd tame.
The con's my game. 
     I "Hoax!" exclaim.
I cherish fame. 
"I'm God"'s my claim. 
I'd douse the flame.
     My brain is lame. 
The world's aflame.
But Trumpleswilltskin 
is my name. 

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Limn'd as Limerick: a "Lim"ited Dictionary

Lima        noun       /leé - muh/ 

There's this city, thought named for a bean, 
whose true namesake's now (finally!) seen. 
Lima's named for an oracle -- 
Incan, historical: 
Limaq -- a god-in-machine.


limation     noun       /lim - máy - shun/ 


limb           noun       /lim/ 

That branch of a tree we call limb 
begins thick at the trunk, then grows slim. 
If you're perch'd at its end, 
my advice to you, friend, 
is, "Do NOT saw it off on a whim." 


limbo         verb       /lim - boh/


     (More words and definitions coming: a work in progress)

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Patience; or, Of Late I've Heard

Of late I've heard 
the word "assass-..." 
My greatest hope...? 
This tool shall pass... 
...before my pound 
of powder'd glass 
gets stirr'd into his Coke. 
      (Composure, please!)

     I've heard, 
"Let's put him out to grass 
before his muster'd
mustard gas 
assassinates
the working class." 
He passes gas -- no joke. 
      (Let me reprise.)

     This misanthrope -- 
this ghoul -- shall pass. 
This dick, this dope, 
this stool shall pass.
Stay cool! Don't mope!
This fool shall pass. 
I hope I've not misspoke.
     (No guarantees.)


Monday, January 5, 2026

OUR Road to Damascus...? Don't Dawdle: Just ASK Us!

As a student of 
western polyphonies, 
I compos'd sev'ral 
well-receiv'd symphonies. 
which caus'd not even
minor epiphanies 
'til my wife book'd our 
breakfasts at Tiffany's.

Sunday, January 4, 2026

ER: Two Varia

In Khartoum, as in Kalamazoo, 
lie emergency rooms, with a view 
letting patients observe 
(if they've requisite nerve) 
deeds disorderly orderlies do. 
     Both in Kalamazoo and Khartoum 
looms, on cue, deja vu. View'd's a room 
letting sufferers see, for a nominal fee, 
who performs -- how, where, why...and on whom. 


Saturday, January 3, 2026

Observation Re: a Certain Octogenarian

Why does Drumpf not sleep late...?
Drumpf's near eighty! His fate 
is to pee in his 
3 a.m. toilet. 
Were he urge to ignore 
and continue to snore, 
Drumpf's white linen would suffer: 
he'd soil it. 
Its Spring freshness to save 
would take more than a lave: 
Drumpf's top need...? To proceed 
to parboil it. 
Would it e'er be the same...? 
Are Drumpf's kidneys to blame...? 
Either way, aides will say, 
"Sir, don't spoil it."


Friday, January 2, 2026

Thus Spake Nietzsche; or, "Look Who's Dead!"

Carol Todd -- aka "Toddy." 
Thousand Nights' Sheherezade. 
Mafioso don John Gotti. 
Michael, Ann 'n' Sweeney Todd. 
Lunatic Jean-Paul Marat -- he 
got disposed of by de Sade. 

Elle Macpherson, dubb'd "The Body." 
Savage sadist al-Assad. 
Kidron Valley -- David's wadi. 
Winkin. Blinkin. (Also Nod).
Sōkun, master of karate. 
Who did I forget...? Oops: God. 

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Ten Trampoliners; or, And Then There Were Not Quite None

Twice five trampoliners:
their nine siblings they'd outshine. 
The first lands in his neighbor's yard. 
There now remain just nine. 
     Observe nine trampoliners 
try to outperform each mate.
The second soarer sprains his wrist, 
which leaves behind but eight. 

     Voila! Eight trampoliners. 
Two exhaust their bags of tricks 
while banging all four knees together. 
Now are seen just six.
     So: six svelt trampoliners.
Shouts the smallest, "Watch me dive!"
Which tree'd he land in...? No one sees.
(At this point, there be five.)

     Full five fit trampoliners. 
Sev'ral watch their brothers soar. 
The last to soar's not seen again. 
How many left...? But four. 
     Four facile trampoliners. 
Yells the eldest lad, "Whoo-pee!" 
and promptly knocks himself unconscious. 
Left to leap...? But three. 

     Three trusty trampoliners. 
Did you see which pull'd a gun 
and blithely blew the other two
away -- thus leaving one...? 
     That solo trampoliner leaps, 
as huge -- and hungry! -- birds 
swoop down and bite his head off.
Now how many leap...? Two thirds. 



Beer with Lear/Wine with Stein: Edward & Gertrude Propose Pick'd Poisons Pair'd with Prominent Partners

A shot 'n' a Bud  with Ashley Judd,  Roger Mudd  and Elmer Fudd.     A lager 'n' lime  with Helen Grime,  Orwell's Syme ...