Runcibl'd Spooner: Borstal Ploy

"The Bluefish Brothers:
Further Poissons of Interest"

Marks which tele- 

graph: "I've doubts a-

bout the words I 

hide inside 'em":
Scare Quotes.
     Brendan* labels 

Glasgow's Nancys
thus. (How better 

to deride 'em!):
"Quare Scotes!"
     Moral:
It's not easy 

bein' *Behan.

Runcibl'd Spooner: The First Shall Be L'Asta

"Buster Crab:
Another Poisson of Interest"

     Tootles and Slightly

and Curly and Nibs
and the Twins –
each lad launch'd from his
pram: Lost Boys.
     Some second assistant
director tells Nora Charles
wannabes, “Leg it, Sis!
Scram!” Boss’d Loys.
     Moral:
Let no Pan spurn a
would-be Myrna.

Runcibl'd Spooner: Debate Knight

Supremacy's white
‘n' the flights of Drumpf lunar.
How far’s “too far right”…?
Just ask Reverend Spooner:
“Proud Boys ‘n’
Brow'd Poison.*”
     Moral:
As ever, El Rev
haunts a whole ‘nother lev.

     * Several mss show variants, 

among them "B'rrow d' Poi, Son!" 

Most have been fiercely disavowed 

as shameless lampoons.

The Placozoa Chronicles, Episode 21: Beaches Brew

"Zut! Zoë's Zeke's Zak"

 

   Ep. 21: La Copa, Oz: 

La Copa: a sand beach hotel…?

And Oz: em’rald city…? Oh, well. 

Visit one, meet a wizard. 

The other…? A lizard.

La Copa, Oz: heaven...? Nope! Hell!

The Placozoa Chronicles, Episode 20: Rocky Mountain Hype

"Your Yashmak'd Youngster's Yak"

  

    Ep. 20: Aaps, Colo.

The aal: Just a dal with bravado...?

Or some tripe miming ripe avocado...?

The Centennial State's 

Aaps loads loads of aal crates.

(Scan your maps! Pinpoint Aaps, Colo.)

The Placozoa Chronicles, Episode 19: The How...?s of Wax

"Xanthic Xylocopidae"

       Ep. 19: A Cazoo LP

If your record collection's like mine,

you like grading your discs 1 through 9.

But one pressing's so rare

it scores 10 anywhere:

A Cazoo LP -- IF genuine.

The Placozoa Chronicles, Episode 18: Forbidden Fruitcake

 

"Wicked Warlock's Warrantee"

   Ep. 18: Lac Pozao

When "Which playground for comrades of Mao
who've been bann'd from Bill's bar in Bilbao
has won 'Best for Free Sex...'?"
asks a friend of you ex-,
recommend to that friend Lac Pozao.

The Placozoa Chronicles. Episode 17: Pass the Maypole Syrup!

"Vicious Vole (de)Vouring Vivian Vance"

      Ep. 17: Calzoopa

May Day's menu...? For starters, try yams
topp'd with droplets of bearberry jams.
The entree's a pie -- 
freeze-dried butterfly's thigh.
What's for pudding...? Calzoopa di clams.

The Placozoa Chronicles, Episode 16: Star Dreck

"Uncle's (Ugh!) Unsightly Underpants"

     Ep. 16: A C.Z.A. Loop 

Track this Placozoistical scoop:
space-time's squeez'd through a C.Z.A. Loop! 
What's the upshot...? Our Moon's
trined albino-hued prunes

and our Milky Way's mock turtle soup.

The Placozoa Chronicles, Episode 15: Talkin' Balkin

"Teddy Truckin' Ten-Ton Trash"

     Ep. 15: Ala Pózoç 

Lest th'Abyss, with linguistical hopscotch,
wrest your etymological wristwatch,
do as Pózoçes do -- 
true Albanians, nu...?
When pronouncing, pronounce ala Pózoç!

The Placozoa Chronicles, Episode 14: Sullivan's Gilbert...? He, too's, a filbert.

"Swirlin' Swami's Silken Sash"

     Ep. 14: Zap'a: Loco! 

Which musicians' cognitions wax'd broke...? Faux-
belles-lett' pennin' John Lennon...? His Yoko...?
Courtney Love...? Johnny Rotten...?
So: who've we forgotten...?
Wag/crankchap tagg'd Frank Zap'a: Loco!