Salternatives: A Charm City Sonnet
Part One
It's routine hue's not green, not blue:
the yellow Bal'mer Salt Box.
But let me introduce to you
each Bal'mer Salt Box alt box.
One's home to News's raven muse:
the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Box.
Use single straw -- or two (you choose):
the Double Choc'late Malt Box.
One holds wa-a-ay more than all its parts:
the David Marr Gestalt Box.
The Big One's scaling off the charts:
the San Andreas Fault Box.
This octal icon rules the streets:
the Reach a Screechin' Halt Box.
This food lab houses serious eats:
the Kenji López-Alt Box.
"I'm outta dough; I cannot lie...":
the Student Loan Default Box.
Where P***yGrabsters go to die:
the Sexual Assault Box.
Part Two
Comics herein limn'd...? The best!
The 'Toons by Dudes Dubb'd Walt Box.
(Poe* draws as well...in Berlin West:
Poe's Lebensunterhalt Box.)
This serves to store your foreign car:
the English say 'Renault' Box.
These contents tell volks who you are:
the Mispronounced 'Inhált' Box.
Your bubbe calls it liquid gold:
where's 'z'...? Behind the 'Shmalt' Box.
This...? Home to hordes of Barb'rys bold:
the '-er, Rock o' Gibrault-' Box.
Medievals used this for their church:
the Pitch'd-brick Barrel Vault Box.
Embrace the flip; avoid the lurch:
the Triple Somersault Box.
This holds the tablets of the law:
the Thou Shalt Not/Thou Shalt Box.
Decryptions Turing oversaw:
the "AI's Alan's Fault" Box.
Codetta
It's routine hue's nor green nor blue,
the Yellow Bal'mer Salt box.
That said, this last one's red:
the "I Dictatoheads Exalt!" Box.
* Ulysses Poe, aka The DMV's
Doggerel Dickinson, is a Baltimore
poetaster/illustrator and creator
of the texts and images you're
presently perusing.
