With an A/B, who's to say be-
ret'd artistes won't make a baby?
With a C/D, yes indeedy!
We shall catch a cold. We’re speedy.
With an E/F, even we -- deaf! --
dare we not erect a G-clef?
With a G/H, waving fee, wage
and expense, we'll twirl a tach gauge.
With an I/J, we'll oblige (say)
Raul Castro to chirp, "Hi,
Che!"*
With a K/L, if we say, "Well...
no can do!" there'll be, to pay,
hell.
With an M/N, men from Bremen
and good luck, we'll launch a lemon.
We'll, with O/P (though with no pi-
ranhas), craft kachinas (Hopi).
With a Q/R, seven who are
skill’d can blow a "vaquum" Dewar.
With an S/T, we'll not rest. (He
who might thwart us? Wa-a-ay too chesty.)
With a U/V -- ain't it groovy? –
we should shoot a silent "mouvie."
Double U/X…? Single U/X…?
“Second’s best,” notes Ernest Truex.'
Last, with Y/Z, something spicy.
Backwards zoos! (Though zoos prove pricey.)
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.)
Monday, May 27, 2019
Friday, May 24, 2019
New Prosopogostichs: Herbert Crowley
Not unpleasant to know...? Mr. Crowley.*
Not an artist to toss in the towel. He,
I'll be bound, seems well-rounded, less jowly
than stout Sino-Vietnamese Hao, Li.**
Often diss'd by harsh critics most foully
(pann'd one pundit, "Ol' Herb's a tad owly...")
is the pleasant-to-know Herbert Crowley,
who, I swan, prompts this connoisseur's howl: "Ee-ee-ee-ee…"
* Search online for Herbert in conjunction with his Wiggle-Much (pardon the expression). You won't be disappointed.
** 'Hao' is a Vietnamese word for 'good.' Li is the second most popular surname in China. Of course, Hao would ordinarily be referred to as Li Hao but hey...who's list'nin'...? (Or listin' for that matter.)
Not an artist to toss in the towel. He,
I'll be bound, seems well-rounded, less jowly
than stout Sino-Vietnamese Hao, Li.**
Often diss'd by harsh critics most foully
(pann'd one pundit, "Ol' Herb's a tad owly...")
is the pleasant-to-know Herbert Crowley,
who, I swan, prompts this connoisseur's howl: "Ee-ee-ee-ee…"
* Search online for Herbert in conjunction with his Wiggle-Much (pardon the expression). You won't be disappointed.
** 'Hao' is a Vietnamese word for 'good.' Li is the second most popular surname in China. Of course, Hao would ordinarily be referred to as Li Hao but hey...who's list'nin'...? (Or listin' for that matter.)
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Tik-Tok Introduces Les Temps Perduphabet
Ages amble on for years. Not Advents: four weeks...tops.
An afternoon drags on for days – as Act IIIs do when flops.
An attosecond...? Light takes time to make those two short hops!*
Biennia exhaust two years, then bid you, "Au revoir."
(The first depends on how one takes account of candlepowers.)
(A day...? In hours, twenty-four: so strokes Old Smoke’s* Big Ben.)
"Yer era's just yer ERA,"* opines one baseball buff.
A time frame's fluid: Al Jarreau took five and raked in tons.
(A femtosecond's far too short: the time buff femtos shuns.)
A gigasecond lasts one second – times one billion, matey!
(Gestations and Gregori'n years...? Sure…IF you hail from Haiti.)
of a galactic year) measures about 225 million earth years.
Some sev’ral heartbeats– seventy plus two – each minute fill.
(There may beat more -- or way, way less -- if one falls gravely ill.)
A hectosecond takes a hundred seconds, more or less.
How many in an hour...? Hey! Just do the math. (Or guess.)
(A verse which blends ‘em both...? Perhaps a Limerick of Lear’s.)
A jubilee is fifteen years. (Who so explains that term? Me!)
A kilosecond’s three halves of a ke…and so: adieu!
A lustrum lasts five years. When you’re in jail, that seems a lifetime.
The bachelor (unless confirm’d) lives, for his sins, a wifed time.
(M times abound. But, in the meantime, see ya later, 'gator!)
The time twixt lights turn’d green and car horns honk’d...? A New York minute.
The length of night depends on
where on earth good souls begin it.
A billionth of a second...? That’s a nanosecond...i’n’it...?
Olympiad's years...? Four. That's how long athlete stars must wait
in gala op'ning ceremonies to participate.
Whoever fails to qualify ends up in waiting eight.
Plank Time is assumed to be the shortest length of time.
To physicists who so assume, the Planck's a paradigm.
A period lasts two to seven days -- and doesn't rhyme.
A quarter lasts eleven weeks. (My teachers claim it's ten.)
I'll cut a class to watch Olympics every now and then.
Quadrennia employ four years. (Olympiads again!)
A show should have a lengthy run if writ by Shakespeare, Will.
Kelly closed on op'ning night. Dramatic value...? Nil.
Agatha's The Mousetrap's run...? Who knows...? It's running still.
A Swedberg's not a Sievert nor a Sverdrup...truth to tell.
A Swedberg lasts one hundred femtoseconds. Speed...? Pell-mell.
I gave a lamb's tail two quick shakes. That lamb moved fast as hell.
The time treads at a torpid crawl for cats who'd make a scene.
A Spring semester, forged of weeks, lasts (more or less) fifteen.
At thirteen weeks, a season's shorter: that few contravene.
The score of Cats fills up two acts, with interval between.
(A sider'al year...? You'd best consult your science magazine.)
A Hitchcock take ten minutes takes; a Warhol, thirty-three.
(Review "Long take" on Wikipedia. It's there; you'll see.)
A Tatum? Quicker than a trice...? (Art wouldn't disagree.)
The Upper Pal'olithic...? 50,000 years (or so)
ago that age gets going -- and it goes till...I dunno...
('Twould seem its length depends a lot on depths of Ice Age snow.)
As such, it's theoretical by anybody's gauge.
You disagree...? You own the right to simply turn the page.
Yoctoseconds are the shortest lifetimes ever seen.
To measure yottaseconds. timers need a time machine.
A year's a "lotta seconds." (Was my punning unforeseen...?)
Zeptoseconds…zettasseconds: one's real short; one's long.
Or is it t'other way around: I always get 'em wrong.
It's all lost time...in spans of rhyme...and intervals of song.
An afternoon drags on for days – as Act IIIs do when flops.
An attosecond...? Light takes time to make those two short hops!*
* An attosecond measures the time light
takes to travel the width
of two hydrogen atoms, about one quintillionth of a second.
of two hydrogen atoms, about one quintillionth of a second.
Blips be brief. And as for beats...? But fractions
of a bar.
Some thirty minutes, bells at sea. (In class, bells fifty are.*) Biennia exhaust two years, then bid you, "Au revoir."
* Back in the day, the length of a
typical high-school Algebra class
in minutes (though feeling far longer to certain participants).
in minutes (though feeling far longer to certain participants).
The time a candle takes to burn runs several
hundred hours.
A century...? Eight hundred thousand
hours -- and more -- devours. (The first depends on how one takes account of candlepowers.)
One’s life spins seven decades out
-- in years, that's three score ten
(assuming decades ten years
span): so scrawls the Psalmist's pen. (A day...? In hours, twenty-four: so strokes Old Smoke’s* Big Ben.)
* A nickname originally bestowed on
London due to its smog.
The
moniker has persisted.
An epoch's length's determin’d by a slew of 'ic'y stuff –
like geometr'ic's, astronom'ic's, phys'ic's... (Had
enough...?) "Yer era's just yer ERA,"* opines one baseball buff.
* In baseball, the average number of runs given
up by a
pitcher – his so-called earned run average – and not a
measure of time at all.
pitcher – his so-called earned run average – and not a
measure of time at all.
A Friedman marks the past six
moons; a fortnight, fourteen suns.
A February...? Eight ‘n’ twenty – 'cept in leap year runs. A time frame's fluid: Al Jarreau took five and raked in tons.
(A femtosecond's far too short: the time buff femtos shuns.)
How long's a generation...? Whom you quiz may well prove
weighty.
Galactic years...? Since time began, far fewer've flown than eighty.* A gigasecond lasts one second – times one billion, matey!
(Gestations and Gregori'n years...? Sure…IF you hail from Haiti.)
* About 61 since
the Big Bang, as the time it takes the solar
system to orbit the center of the
Milky Way (which is the length of a galactic year) measures about 225 million earth years.
A moment lasts a minute and a half. Thus: half a mo
should, as a rule, last merely
five and forty seconds. Go!Some sev’ral heartbeats– seventy plus two – each minute fill.
(There may beat more -- or way, way less -- if one falls gravely ill.)
A hectosecond takes a hundred seconds, more or less.
How many in an hour...? Hey! Just do the math. (Or guess.)
An instant takes no time at all. Indictions...? Fifteen years.
An instant’s just a snapshot of "right now" -- in, say, Algiers.(A verse which blends ‘em both...? Perhaps a Limerick of Lear’s.)
A jiffy measures time elaps’d as
light migrates one fermi.
(A fermi fur fans fail to find in tomes on taxidermy.)A jubilee is fifteen years. (Who so explains that term? Me!)
What’s ten plus four and
four/tenths minutes long...? The answer’s ke.
A ke’s Chinese, Its sound approximates a Frenchman’s ‘bleu.’A kilosecond’s three halves of a ke…and so: adieu!
Most Lents last forty days. For folks who’re fasting, they’re a strife time.
For lunar months, slice one half
day off thirty days: ‘tis knife time!A lustrum lasts five years. When you’re in jail, that seems a lifetime.
The bachelor (unless confirm’d) lives, for his sins, a wifed time.
A month o’ Sundays...? Thirty weeks. (In
tete-a-tetes, much greater.)
A moment lasts one minute and one
half – not one tick later.(M times abound. But, in the meantime, see ya later, 'gator!)
The time twixt lights turn’d green and car horns honk’d...? A New York minute.
A billionth of a second...? That’s a nanosecond...i’n’it...?
Olympiad's years...? Four. That's how long athlete stars must wait
in gala op'ning ceremonies to participate.
Whoever fails to qualify ends up in waiting eight.
Plank Time is assumed to be the shortest length of time.
To physicists who so assume, the Planck's a paradigm.
A period lasts two to seven days -- and doesn't rhyme.
A quarter lasts eleven weeks. (My teachers claim it's ten.)
I'll cut a class to watch Olympics every now and then.
Quadrennia employ four years. (Olympiads again!)
A show should have a lengthy run if writ by Shakespeare, Will.
Kelly closed on op'ning night. Dramatic value...? Nil.
Agatha's The Mousetrap's run...? Who knows...? It's running still.
A Swedberg's not a Sievert nor a Sverdrup...truth to tell.
A Swedberg lasts one hundred femtoseconds. Speed...? Pell-mell.
I gave a lamb's tail two quick shakes. That lamb moved fast as hell.
The time treads at a torpid crawl for cats who'd make a scene.
A Spring semester, forged of weeks, lasts (more or less) fifteen.
At thirteen weeks, a season's shorter: that few contravene.
The score of Cats fills up two acts, with interval between.
(A sider'al year...? You'd best consult your science magazine.)
A Hitchcock take ten minutes takes; a Warhol, thirty-three.
(Review "Long take" on Wikipedia. It's there; you'll see.)
A Tatum? Quicker than a trice...? (Art wouldn't disagree.)
The Upper Pal'olithic...? 50,000 years (or so)
ago that age gets going -- and it goes till...I dunno...
('Twould seem its length depends a lot on depths of Ice Age snow.)
How long a vamp 'til ready lasts depends on sev'ral things:
how fast or slow the song, and when the diva fin'lly sings.
Vacations last the summer long. (The shorter one's the spring's.)
how fast or slow the song, and when the diva fin'lly sings.
Vacations last the summer long. (The shorter one's the spring's.)
A watch at sea in hours...? Four -- or five or six, sometimes.
A while might take awhile -- days, hours...years in southern climes.
(It often takes me quite awhile to find a word which rhymes.)
An exasecond's longer than our universe's age.A while might take awhile -- days, hours...years in southern climes.
(It often takes me quite awhile to find a word which rhymes.)
As such, it's theoretical by anybody's gauge.
You disagree...? You own the right to simply turn the page.
To measure yottaseconds. timers need a time machine.
A year's a "lotta seconds." (Was my punning unforeseen...?)
Zeptoseconds…zettasseconds: one's real short; one's long.
Or is it t'other way around: I always get 'em wrong.
It's all lost time...in spans of rhyme...and intervals of song.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Peter Pantoum: a Petit Paean to PB&J
Halleluja! Hip hip hooray! PB&J!
Found grounded in ground peas well-ground into butter
o'erlaid with a layer of jelly. Ole!
Your sandwich...? Tres rich! My papillae...? Aflutter.
Found grounded in ground peas well-ground into butter.
One layer of jelly; one layer of Jif
(your sandwich...? Tres rich! My papillae...? Aflutter)
twixt slices of Wonder Bread. Give us a whiff!
One layer of jelly; one layer of Jif
(some spread Peter Pan -- either crunchy or smooth)
betwixt slices of Wonder Bread. Give us a whiff!
Such comfort food's proud of its power to soothe.
Some spread Peter Pan -- either crunchy or smooth --
and then add mash'd bananas (an Elvis, it's call'd).
Such comfort food's proud of its power to soothe.
And the fans of The King dine completely enthrall'd --
all who add mash'd bananas (an Elvis, it's call'd).
Or just jam, and the butter from peanuts, and bread.
And the fans of The King die completely enthrall'd.
OK, PB&J! On fad food I'd be fed!
Postface: a pantoum is the name assigned any
of a series of poetic forms based on the Malay
pantum. Cf two posts below for schematics and
a brief intro to the structure of the form.
Found grounded in ground peas well-ground into butter
o'erlaid with a layer of jelly. Ole!
Your sandwich...? Tres rich! My papillae...? Aflutter.
Found grounded in ground peas well-ground into butter.
One layer of jelly; one layer of Jif
(your sandwich...? Tres rich! My papillae...? Aflutter)
twixt slices of Wonder Bread. Give us a whiff!
One layer of jelly; one layer of Jif
(some spread Peter Pan -- either crunchy or smooth)
betwixt slices of Wonder Bread. Give us a whiff!
Such comfort food's proud of its power to soothe.
Some spread Peter Pan -- either crunchy or smooth --
and then add mash'd bananas (an Elvis, it's call'd).
Such comfort food's proud of its power to soothe.
And the fans of The King dine completely enthrall'd --
all who add mash'd bananas (an Elvis, it's call'd).
Or just jam, and the butter from peanuts, and bread.
And the fans of The King die completely enthrall'd.
OK, PB&J! On fad food I'd be fed!
Postface: a pantoum is the name assigned any
of a series of poetic forms based on the Malay
pantum. Cf two posts below for schematics and
a brief intro to the structure of the form.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Portraits in Textiles & Textures: Post-Gallery-Show State of the Art Collection
"Men of the Cloth and of Other Materials"
Corduroy Orbison S O L D
Burlap Ives
Foam Chomsky
Edgar Allan Peau de Soie S O L D
Kevin GarNet
Tiny Tinfoil
Bill Murraymekko
Pillow Reilly
Harrison Furr'd
Satintin
Gerard Diaperdoo
Denim Elliott
Kier DuLace
Henri MaTissue S O L D
Crochet Guevara
Plaidimir Putin
George Gamowflage
Antonio Bandanas
John Linen
Bill Gauzeby
Fred Hoylecloth
Fiorello Flaguardia
Sampler-I-Ampler
Robert Coaster
Mr. Teabags
Jean-Michel Basket
Bibi Netting-Yahoo
"Material (and Otherwise Texture'd) Girls"
Olive Voile
Sarah Huckabeee Sandpaper
Proposed Profiles
Reeseipts With-'er-Spoon
Dr. Martin Loofah King, Jr.
Rachel Matzo
Johann Sebastian Blocks
Sockrates
Playtoh
Rene Descartestoon
Burlap Ives
Foam Chomsky
Kevin GarNet
Tiny Tinfoil
Bill Murraymekko
Pillow Reilly
Harrison Furr'd
Satintin
Gerard Diaperdoo
Denim Elliott
Kier DuLace
Crochet Guevara
Plaidimir Putin
George Gamowflage
Antonio Bandanas
John Linen
Bill Gauzeby
Fred Hoylecloth
Fiorello Flaguardia
Sampler-I-Ampler
Robert Coaster
Mr. Teabags
Jean-Michel Basket
Bibi Netting-Yahoo
"Material (and Otherwise Texture'd) Girls"
Olive Voile
Sarah Huckabeee Sandpaper
Proposed Profiles
Reeseipts With-'er-Spoon
Dr. Martin Loofah King, Jr.
Rachel Matzo
Johann Sebastian Blocks
Sockrates
Playtoh
Rene Descartestoon
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Pantoum Schematics
Pantoum is the name assigned to several poetic forms based on the Malay pantun. The schematic appearing at left indicates relationships existing between the lines of a poem composed in one of the several forms a pantoum may take.
Each square space containing a numeral and a letter represents a line of verse. There are four lines to each stanza. The line's number of words, syllables, its meter and the total number of stanzas may vary with each poem. (There are also some unique treatments of the lines of the final stanza regarding repetition that won't be discussed here in these comments.)
Each horizontal row represents a stanza of four lines. The form can employ as many stanzas as is necessary to complete the poem.
In the archetypical poem suggested by the schematic there are four lines in each stanza, five stanzas in the poem, six different rhymes (indicated by letters a through f), eight different verbatim repeats (2b, 4b, 5c, 6c, 7d, 8d, 9e and 10e), twelve unique lines (indicated by numerals 1 through 12) and twenty total lines. [4:5:6:8:12:20]
The thin arrows link lines which rhyme; the thicker arrows link lines which are identical. As the schematic indicates, the second line of each stanza is repeated verbatim as the first line of the stanza following, while the fourth line of each stanza is repeated verbatim as the third line of the stanza following.
The schematic below and to the right shows the different lines of the schematic above shifted one space to the right. The lines which are verbatim repeats share a color. An N notation indicates that this is the first time within the poem that line is heard -- i.e., that it is new. As noted above, there are twelve such lines. An R notation indicates that the line is being heard a second time -- i.e., that it is being repeated. Again as noted above, there are eight such lines.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Seven (Plus Sev'ral) Asea: Famous Ships (Some Fictional) Set Sail for Storied Ports of Call with an Array of Colorful Characters Aboard -- All Delineated In Verses Always Including a Minimum of Seven Letters Abecedarially Determined
On Attic Jason's Argo, Abner's off to Angkor Wat.
"I'm so at sea, Ma," argues he. Ma answers, "No, you're not."* (7)
* Is Abner in fact Al Capp's Li'l Abner? Is Ma actually Capp's Mammy Yokum? You decide.
The Black Pearl’s bearing's nor' by east. What's Britney's bourn? Big Ben.
There's been no doubting if she'll dock: the question's been but when. (7+3)
* The familiar Miss Spears or some wannabe? Difficult to determine.
Cole cruises 'board the Caine. His port o' call? Rome’s Colosseum.
Cole credits Christian martyrs. ('Course he'd never choose to be ‘em.) (7+3)
* No one would ever consider Porter the martyr type.
Dawn Treader's Captain Drinian's Dev's former mate -- and mine.
Dev, sailing to the Duomo, dodges Davy Jones's brine. (7)
* Patel reportedly has long harbored a desire to visit Florence.
Ehrlich's Eigenstrasse, on the eve o' World War II,
bears Elsa to the Tour Eiffel with Eve 'n' me...et vous? (7)
* In this version of "The Sea Chase," John Wayne's Ehrlich and Lana Turner's Elsa take a detour to Le Tour.
The Flying Dutchman ferries Fats to Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
His wish? To ferry Frank as well. "F**k! Dad's dead," fumes Frank's daughter. (7+2)
* Domino or Waller? Either could provide wonderful shipboard entertainment.
With Gene 'n' Garfield (not the Goose), the Ghost, with Edward G.
(not Gomer*) drops her gangplank at the Guggenheim: Goll-ee-ee! (7+2)
* Gene Lockhart, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson (the latter well-known for his art collecting) all shipped aboard the Ghost in Hollywood's "The Sea Wolf." Garfield Goose and Gomer Pyle didn't.
Hergé's aboard the Henrietta, headin' for the Hague.
How many hogsheads holds her hold? Alas, the number's vague. (7+2)
* The vessel which ferries Fogg and company across the Atlantic on the last leg of their storied journey around the world.
If I'd intend to stow away, th'Intrepid I'd ignore.
It's port's the inukshuk at Igloolik. I'll stay on shore. (7+3)
Jenny/Juliet's Balcony
Karaboudjan/Khor Virap
Lollipop/Leaning Tower of Pisa
Mary Deare/Machu Pichu
Nautilus/Notre Dame de Paris
Orca/Old Post Office Pavilion...
Pequod/ Pantheon (Parthenon...
Q-boat/Quansuh al Guhra
Red October/Robie House
Sea Unicorn/Sidney Opera House
Titanic/Taj Mahal
Ulysses/Urquhart Castle
Venture/Versailles
We're Here/Windsor Castle
Xenophon/Xunantunich
Yellow Submarine/Yaxchilan
Zodiac/Ziggurat of Ur
"I'm so at sea, Ma," argues he. Ma answers, "No, you're not."* (7)
* Is Abner in fact Al Capp's Li'l Abner? Is Ma actually Capp's Mammy Yokum? You decide.
The Black Pearl’s bearing's nor' by east. What's Britney's bourn? Big Ben.
There's been no doubting if she'll dock: the question's been but when. (7+3)
* The familiar Miss Spears or some wannabe? Difficult to determine.
Cole cruises 'board the Caine. His port o' call? Rome’s Colosseum.
Cole credits Christian martyrs. ('Course he'd never choose to be ‘em.) (7+3)
* No one would ever consider Porter the martyr type.
Dawn Treader's Captain Drinian's Dev's former mate -- and mine.
Dev, sailing to the Duomo, dodges Davy Jones's brine. (7)
* Patel reportedly has long harbored a desire to visit Florence.
Ehrlich's Eigenstrasse, on the eve o' World War II,
bears Elsa to the Tour Eiffel with Eve 'n' me...et vous? (7)
* In this version of "The Sea Chase," John Wayne's Ehrlich and Lana Turner's Elsa take a detour to Le Tour.
The Flying Dutchman ferries Fats to Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
His wish? To ferry Frank as well. "F**k! Dad's dead," fumes Frank's daughter. (7+2)
* Domino or Waller? Either could provide wonderful shipboard entertainment.
With Gene 'n' Garfield (not the Goose), the Ghost, with Edward G.
(not Gomer*) drops her gangplank at the Guggenheim: Goll-ee-ee! (7+2)
* Gene Lockhart, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson (the latter well-known for his art collecting) all shipped aboard the Ghost in Hollywood's "The Sea Wolf." Garfield Goose and Gomer Pyle didn't.
Hergé's aboard the Henrietta, headin' for the Hague.
How many hogsheads holds her hold? Alas, the number's vague. (7+2)
* The vessel which ferries Fogg and company across the Atlantic on the last leg of their storied journey around the world.
If I'd intend to stow away, th'Intrepid I'd ignore.
It's port's the inukshuk at Igloolik. I'll stay on shore. (7+3)
Jenny/Juliet's Balcony
Karaboudjan/Khor Virap
Lollipop/Leaning Tower of Pisa
Mary Deare/Machu Pichu
Nautilus/Notre Dame de Paris
Orca/Old Post Office Pavilion...
Pequod/ Pantheon (Parthenon...
Q-boat/Quansuh al Guhra
Red October/Robie House
Sea Unicorn/Sidney Opera House
Titanic/Taj Mahal
Ulysses/Urquhart Castle
Venture/Versailles
We're Here/Windsor Castle
Xenophon/Xunantunich
Yellow Submarine/Yaxchilan
Zodiac/Ziggurat of Ur
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Sunshine Boys & Girls Must Come to Dust
Willy* wax'd vehement:
“‘Pickle.’ That's funny...
'n' ‘chicken’ 'n' ‘cockroach’ 'n' ‘cupcake.’ They're funny.
Woids wid a K,’ not wid M, not wid L...”
Makes you wonder what Willy would think about ‘knell.’
Or ‘Ivanka’? Thinks Willy ‘Ivanka’ so funny?
Steve Bannon thinks 'Vanka’s “as dumb as a brick.”
Nowadays, ‘brick''s a funny word. (So, Steve, is ‘prick.’)
Nowadays, ‘sick’'s a funny word. (So, Chris, is ‘kill’ --
as is 'kin,' 'lock'd up,' 'Newark' 'n’ 'Mockingbird Hill.'
You 'n' Jared are, both of you, critic'lly ill.
Makes you wonder what verdict might bring Uncle Will.)
Makes you wonder: might Willy think truth has been jack'd?
most remarkable, awful…and awf'lly bizarre.
I perceive Sister Sarah as chip off a block.
‘Block’ is funny now’days. Poppa Mike? He's a crock.
'Block,' Mike,' ‘crock’? Funny all. (As is, nowadays, ‘mock.')
'n' ‘chicken’ 'n' ‘cockroach’ 'n' ‘cupcake.’ They're funny.
Woids wid a K,’ not wid M, not wid L...”
Makes you wonder what Willy would think about ‘knell.’
Or ‘Ivanka’? Thinks Willy ‘Ivanka’ so funny?
Steve Bannon thinks 'Vanka’s “as dumb as a brick.”
Nowadays, ‘brick''s a funny word. (So, Steve, is ‘prick.’)
Makes you wonder if Willy’d think ‘Kushner’ so funny.
Chris Christie thinks Jared's both bitter 'n' sick.Nowadays, ‘sick’'s a funny word. (So, Chris, is ‘kill’ --
as is 'kin,' 'lock'd up,' 'Newark' 'n’ 'Mockingbird Hill.'
You 'n' Jared are, both of you, critic'lly ill.
Makes you wonder what verdict might bring Uncle Will.)
Take 'Kellyanne Conway': that starts with a K.
How Ms. K rambles on how
Hill's emails got hack'd
(now'days, 'hack'd' is a
funny word) till she redacts
with black markers 'n' guile -- and alternative
facts.Makes you wonder: might Willy think truth has been jack'd?
What of ‘Huckabee Sanders’? Remarkably funny.
‘Remark’ is a funny
word; Sarah’s sure are:most remarkable, awful…and awf'lly bizarre.
I perceive Sister Sarah as chip off a block.
‘Block’ is funny now’days. Poppa Mike? He's a crock.
'Block,' Mike,' ‘crock’? Funny all. (As is, nowadays, ‘mock.')
* Uncle Willy Clark, Walter Mathau's cantankerous retired
vaudevillian in the filmed version of Neil Simon's
Broadway comedy "The Sunshine Boys."
vaudevillian in the filmed version of Neil Simon's
Broadway comedy "The Sunshine Boys."
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Profiles in Textiles & Textures: Mr. Teabags
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"Mr. Teabags"
Chemical marker drawing over array of green teabags
taped to 16" x 20" canvas |
Profiles in Textiles & Textures: Robert Coaster
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"Robert Coaster"
Charcoal drawing over gesso'd array of beer mats
attached to 16" x 20" canvas
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