Preface
A Hare, caught power-napping, lost the race.
A Family -- Robinsons -- lived lost in space.
Below, you'll find some ancillary "Losts"
reporting on assorted risks and costs.
Lost Ark
Heedless Hebrews lost their ark.
Jones the Gentile found it...
...whole but harb'ring half a dozen nasty
Nazis nosing 'round it.
Lost Boys
When J. M. Barrie's lads get lost,
they light in Neverland.
But when to go they make great show,
their plans get Peter Pan'd.
Lost Cause
Dixie's kvelling, rebels yelling,
"Abe we won't embrace!"
(But let's be clear: the issues here
have all to do with race.)
Lost Dog
On Wednesday week, our family's peke
(call'd Haydn's Sikh) went missing.
Around the pound we found our hound,
whence follow'd licks 'n' kissing.
Lost Everything
Nigh '29, nine mates o' mine
who'd mucho moolah earn
say "Boo!" to bears, buy "sev'ral" shares,
then promptly crash 'n' burn.
Lost Face
Embrace, Your Grace, your loss of face!
Admit your misdemeanor!
Begin to graze where (goes the phrase)
the muchas grass grows greener.
Lost Generation
Whose body "best of breed" defines...?
Pop Hemingway's...? Or Gertrude Stein's...?
Ms. Zelda's...? Or F. Scott Fitzgerald's...?
Or Yanks who share their Paris Heralds...?
"Lost Horizon"
Shangri-la, where lamas
with ur-consciousness commune:
half Himalayan health spa,
half Tibetan Brigadoon.
Lost Innocence
Eve and worse-half Adam curse,
"Our Paradise is lost."
"Dost thou regain it, shine or rain...?"
asks God. "Thou bet thou dost."
Lost Job
I lost my job so join'd a mob
who, kvetching 'bout such losses,
apace agreed: "Our basic need...?
Erasing greedy bosses."
Lost Klimt
Who hid the Klimt...? Please drop a himt:
'tis worth a mimt or more.
Had I that Klimt, I'd ne'er be skimt.
(I've pray'd I didm't die poor.)
Lost Lenore
A poet (Poe of Bal'imo'e)
beheld a talking grackle.
That verbal bird spoke but one word:
it "Nevermo'e" would cackle.
Lost Mittens
When clueless kittens misplace mittens,
each deserves a shakin.'
When manic mousers lose their marbles,
stronger steps get taken.
Los Nachos
This AI I download
sounds bursty:
it blossoms; it mushrooms; it pops.
Of "These nachos are makin' me thirsty"
I'm suspizzious. (Here's hopin' it stops.)
Lostometer
Columbus's lostometer
proved faulty. Soon it fail'd.
Been made had Chris aware of this,
I know he'd ne'er have sail'd.
Lost Pluto
To me it's still a planet.
Though "experts" tried to pan it
and hatch'd a plan to ban it,
en fin they had to can it.
"Lost" Quotes
"'Tis better to have loved and lost..."
"All's lost once losing dice are toss'd..."
"Your bridges all are cross'd...? You're lost..."
(Now...what's that 'lost road' line from Frost...?)
Lost Rhino
I'm not your av'rage wino,
tho' I relish gettin' sauced.
My fav'rite brew...? Lost Rhino. You...
and everyone: Get Lost!
Lost Souls
Denizens of Dante's Hell,
engraved by M. Doré,
appear more formidabl' today
than did they yesterday.
Lost Time
You need to read how nostrils
serve to spur a lad's recall
when a sugar cookie's dunk'd
into Great Auntie's tea 'n' all.
Lost U-boat
A submarine -- Sargasso Green
and captain'd by von Grath --
was lately seen (where had she been...?)
last ev'ning in my bath.
Lost Voice
My infamous aesthetic voice,
exhausted penning "List,"
the sound of which -- nor Pound nor Joyce --
shall, nonetheless, be miss'd.
Lost Wax
The lost wax process: adults say
how even children do it.
I've look'd it up and say, "No way!
There's, oh, so much more to it."
Lost Xiaomi
Hark closely: I'll not tell you twice.
Locate the page call'd 'Find Device.'
(It's likely lurking in the Cloud.)
Click 'Phone.' Then brace for something loud.
"Lost (in) Yonkers"
Mercedes Ruehl, an actress who'll
with spirit rule the day,
as oft before, she has once more,
in Mr. Simon's play.
Lost Zero
Once Hirohito ax'd Bushido,
Kenji flew his plane
toward Yankeeland full throttle...and
was heard from ne'er again.
