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Saturday, June 13, 2020

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter S

If Hitler's faves
('bout whom Herr raves)
I deign to designate,
I 'S' redact --
'SS,' in fact --
for lugs we love to hate.

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter R


Readin,' 'ritin,'
'rithmetic: aren't
'R's the star(t)s of these...?
Not true! Not true!
Those final two
show, first, apostrophes!

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter N


If numbers I
would specify --
tho' nothin' too specific --
an 'n' you'd see,
like "...nth degree..."
tho' Ns can be horrific.

Friday, June 12, 2020

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter Q

Intelligence -- 
i.e., good sense --
one rates with 'I' plus 'Q.'
Here's all ya do: 
t'your age add 2, 
then... (I've no clue: have you...?)

A Is For A: An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter P

'PE''s lead...? P! 
'PC''s need...? P!
P kicks off 'P&G'!
Plus, scored in threes, 
'p's prompt flutes, "Ple-e-e-ease:
toot very quietly!"

World Heritage Fruit, Vegetable & Cereal Grain Architecture Sites in Series, Series 2, Number 3.14 -- Washington, DC: The Lingon Memorial

"Washington, DC: The Lingon Memorial"
by Ulysses Poe
chemical marker and colored pencils
on copy paper, digitally modified
1 2/3" by 1 2/3"
 
    
  He's 
last seen, years
past, in The 
North Hjo Pic-
torial:
red, round, re-
spected...and 
so-o-o-o gastro-
norial.
Quick, now he's 
ripe, let's all 
pipe verse sen-
sorial:
♪ "Two for des-
sert at the 
Lingon Me-
morial." ♫

Thursday, June 11, 2020

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter B



For 'semisphere
of lead' (one mere-
ly micrometers wide)...?
I'd pen a 'B'*
(halv'd 'BB', si...?),
though Bs ain't bona fide.

     * Not referenced is 
the British Broadcasting 
Corporation.

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter X


"If you'd commit 
some unknown bit
to paper, doing math,
just write an 'x,'" 
advise most techs,
"...nor take no 'o'ther path!"

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter W



Herbert Walker 
play'd the hawk, Herr 
Prescott play'd the banker.
Jeb play'd pol,
while W,* y'all 
recall, play'd quite the _______.**

     * 'Dub'-ya.' ** 'Rank heir,' 'canker,' 
'wanker,' '(blank)er'...? 

A Is For A! An Illustrated Alphabet in Verse: Letter V






There's Wade v Roe. 
There's Brown v Bo'-.
There's Griswold v Connecticut.
What's pendin'...? Me 
v Tweeledee*
in re that bouncin' check he cut.

     * Other mss show variants here; among them:
"Tennessee" (the playwright), "Park Chung-hee" 
and "Kenny G." One even shows "Smithe-Magee." 
(Tho' why would poetaster Poe sue an alter ego?) 

World Heritage Fruit, Vegetable & Cereal Grain Architecture Sites in Series, Series Four, Number Four -- New South Wales, The Sydney Hop'ra House

"New South Wales: The Sydney Hop'ra House"
by Ulysses Poe
chemical marker and colored pencils
on copy paper, digitally modified
11" by 8 1/2"
Who’s daft 
for draft
and Jo-
hann Straus
(compo-
ser of
Die Fle-
dermaus)
must make 
a point 
to, with 
his spouse,
drop by 
the Syd-
ney Hop-
‘ra House.

Litany Chanted Over Schrödinger's Box

Is he dead yet...? 'Yes' or 'No'...?  All'd 'God Bless!' if 'Yes,' you know.  Is he dead yet...? Don...