The Idylls of Ubu, Canto II: RUI BOU

      Canto II: RUI BOU   

Hachimura downhill runs, a-scorin' buckets and "and one"s.

Within the Liga ACB, would Rui be "El Bou...?" Could be.

     * Power forward for the NBA's Lakers. * When a player dribbles past defenders while heading towards the basket in order to score, she is said 

to be "going downhill." * Making a basket is "scoring a bucket." * A single 

free-throw awarded after a player is fouled while successfully scoring a 

basket. * The top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball 

league system. * "The Ox" in the Catalan language. *Do we smell trade 

rumors...?

The Idylls of Ubu, Canto I: UBU ROI

 

King Ubu today
(after Jarry's illustration)

     Canto I: UBU ROI

     Alfred Jarry's word for poo...? 'Twas 'ubu.'         (Ev'rybody knew.)

  Ubu Roi offended all who that night sat in Al's   famed hall.

  (Brits employ'd a diff'rent word, translating 'Ubu   Roi' 'King Turd.')

     Fat, dishonest, greedy, cruel -- a cowardly   mendacious fool --

  Herr Ub' der Boob blends Modern Man with traits   of Tân 'n' Taliban.

  When Ubu hits, the fan base farts non-stop...and   modernism starts.

     * December 10, 1896. * Which is not to say in London's Albert Hall, of course, nor one 

particular hall of fame, and certainly not any hall owned by Jarry himself, but instead in the Theatre de L'OEuvre at what's today's Theatre de Paris. * Except for a lack of reference to hair color (or hair at all), this list of the several character traits of King Ubu doesn't fail to bring to mind a similar one matching up item for item with that of a twice-impeached 

ex-POTUS. * Tân is short for Viet Tân whose activities promote non-violent 

political change in Vietnam. (Without a caret over its a, 'Tan' might also refer 

to the dreaded Black and Tans, brutish British recruits enrolled in the Royal Irish Constabulary during the time of the Troubles. The Vietnamese organization is outlawed there, where it's considered a "terrorist force." (It seems one man's \

shoe bomber is another's freedom fighter.) 

     (a work in progress; additional cantos will be displayed in separate posts)

     

A Clothespin Before Ozmosis

 

A Dual Citizenship

Of all girls from the Urals named Mindy
who could speak classic Greek (also Hindi),
one gnome purr'd Homer's sagas --

perform'd 'em as ragas! -- 

and bore on her forehead a bindi.

Min'd increase links to Greece -- think Bysshe Shelley --

yet stay'd also in thrall to New Delhi,

Patna, Goa et al., 

snarfing horta and dal,

great cuisine she'd late seen on our telly.

As a teen, when a green candy-striper, 

she'd use mops to sluice slops from my diaper. 

[Spawn'd in Sparta, her niece -- 

dubb'd Siddhart'a in Greece --

got tagg'd Iphigeneia in Jaipur.]
     

Part Athenian, part Hindustani,

she could balance those halves -- plu-uncanny!
Spotted practicing yoga
though lacking her toga...?
That's Min, Greco/Indian nanny!

DRT

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Dance Steps From Memes PC&S

In the night of the heat
where you live on the street
you advance then retreat
as you follow the fleet
never skipping a beat
(lather, rinse 'n' repeat)
of this suite of these sweet 
sixteen metrical feet.

You're one dancin' machine,

so begin your Beguine

at the Stage Door Canteen

where it's hard bein' green

(can't you see what I mean...?)

if you know where you've been.

(Has there e'er made the scene 

any sweeter sixteen...?)

Some folks feel it's defeatist

and not the upbeatest

to ask whose feet's fleetest

between each elitist.

Mine aren't the petitest. 

albeit the neatest...

(This list's the completest:

so which sixteen's sweetest...?)

Old Guy Rhymin': Prelude, Poesy & Precis

     Prelude 

     "Take care of the pence; the pounds will take care of themselves."

          -- William Lowndes, British Secretary of the Treasury, 1696-1724

     "Take care of the sense; the sounds will take care of themselves."

          -- Lewis Carroll's Dutchess to Alice in Through the Looking Glass

     "Take care of the tents; the towns will take care of themselves."

          -- Persian polymath, poet and purported pavilion producer 

             Omar Khayyam

     "Take care of the hence; the hounds will take care of themselves.”

          -- A. C. Swinburne, who writes, “When the Hounds of Spring... “

      "Take care of the bents; the bounds will take care of themselves."

           -- tbd

     "Take care of the drench; the drown'ds will take care of themselves"

          -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who in his "The Rime of the Ancient 

             Mariner" writes, "...And all the boards did shrink." 

     Poesy 

Appalling chords did plink...? 

Our Steinway sounded out of tune.

Who'd haul ass towards the brink...? 

Louise 'n' Thelma shoot the moon.

     King Saul wields swords of zinc...? 

Them Philistines be in a fix.

Post gall, I pour'd in ink...? 

My Colorverse/digestive mix.

     A stall at Ford's, d'ya think...? 

So, where will Honest Abe get shot...?

Why're y'all green gourds dyed pink...? 

'Cuz green's too cool while pink is hot.

     That moll affords a wink...? 

The gangster's girlfriend's mighty fine. 

"And all the hordes did stink...?" 

Indeed, a glitch in rhyme saves line.

     Précis

-pall- chords plink, haul towards brink;

Saul swords zinc, gall pour'd ink.

Stall Ford's think, y'all gourds pink;

moll -fords wink, all hordes stink!

"Ill"ustrations in Iambics

My father's Uncle Titus 

has osteoarthritis.
The triplets -- Keir, Ken, Korey:

Doc's verdict...? "H. Pylori."

     My mother's Aunt Louise 

caught Legionnaire's disease.
With next-door neighbor Sidney, 

it's cancer of the kidney.
     My sister's in a coma 

with multiple myeloma.
A distant cousin -- Cyrus --  

contracted West Nile Virus.
     Some rabid rats gave rabies 

to Biddy and her babies.
And, though I feel like hell, 

I'm he who they call 'well.'

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