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Friday, July 5, 2024

One Fine Day At Texas Tex's Textile Tavern


     In one 
West-Texas town 
sits a textile-themed tap
     stuff'd with 
crepes, cottons, calicos, 
cashmeres with nap.
     A 
priest and a minister 
enter that bar;
     therein
join'd by a rabbi 
these holy men are.
     "All di-
vines, vicars, padres, 
imams, monks in robes..."
     tallies
Tex, "...welcome be. Fear not 
State's moral probes!
     "Textile 
Tavern embraces 
all men of the cloth --
     all...re-
gardless of credo. 
(Unless you're a moth.)"

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Selfie Sketchbook: Terrorism Takes A Pair Of Poses


The Domestic Terrorism Cellfie 

     Pose One
 
We're white, supreme...the Master Race,
'n' foreign-born but fer God's grace.
Ya'll girlie girls best learn yer place.
(Does tinfoil headgear spoil my face....?)
   We're proud. We're loud. We're MAGA's base.
We march the Mall, spray ya'll with mace...
though White House docs Drumpf does misplace
'n' tyrants' rants Drumpf does embrace.
(My cap is made of foil 'n' lace.)
   We synagogues 'n' mosques deface. 
Us dudes das Juden won't replace.
That Holocaust did not take place.
(My tinfoil hat glean'd that from space.) 

     Pose Two
 
   To Pence 'n' Nancy we give chase.
We'd hang 'em both to make our case
for burnin' down this frickin' place.
(My tinfoil tam scans scams from space.)
   While climate change will us outpace,
asylum seekin' we'll erase.
Our cons to Don will throw each race. 
With Dems we'll never interface.
(My hat of tin tunes din to space.)
   Of shame we show no hint nor trace. 
We'll not stand down; we'll not lose face. 
(My tin-foil cap maps raps from space. 
We pack AK-s, though, just in case.)

Selfie Sketchbook: Peter...

 










Pete Pumpkineater's Pumpkin Shellfie

Our Peter a dilemma's got:
his strife 'n' trouble* nags...a lot.
(Plus, who's that squash what crash'd Pete's shot...?)
     *'Trouble-'n'-strife' is 
Cockney rhyming slang for 'wife.'

Monday, July 1, 2024

Selfie Sketchbook: Bethle'm...












The Bethle'm Boychik's First Noƫlfie

A swaddl'd Savior squats in straw
and Virgin Mary's womb's still raw,
while Joseph muses, "Who's his Paw...?" 

Selfie Sketchbook: Southerm...











The Dixie Lost Cause Rebel Yellfie

"Uncle!" mutters Robert E.
while Sherman utters, "To the sea!"
and Johnny stutters, "Yee-haw-yee-e-e-ee!" 

Selfie Sketchbook: Rossini...


 






The G. Rossini's William Tellfie

Pomme-topp'd Junior bears his task.
Kemo sabe wears a mask.
(Where his sidekick stares...? Don't ask.)

Sunday, June 30, 2024

A Shelfful O' Selfies

The Shallow Continental Shelffie 
The Papal-States-Supporting Guelphie
The "We All Live In Rivendell"fie
The Jacques Brel Is Alive 'N' Wellfie
The Fennel Farmers In The Dellfie
The Dreamt In Marble Halls We'd Dwellfie
The Me 'N' Stupid (With Adele)fie
The Broadway's Katherine Cornellfie
The Doe-Eyed Soemmerring's Gazellefie 
The "Flag Pin Pinn'd On My Lapel"fie 
The Donald Wins A Fake Nobelfie

     (images and rhyming triplets to come: 
a work in progress)


Saturday, June 29, 2024

Selfie Sketchbook: Cocteau...

 


The Jean Cocteau "Le BĆŖte e' Bellefie"

Jean remarks, "We're not alone."
Josette barks, "BĆŖte's done ete my phone."
(Marais's performance...? Overblown.)

Thursday, June 27, 2024

A Selfie Sketchbook Hierarchy

Their Lost Cause Rebel Yellfie
quells our Wicked Witch's Spellfie, 
my Anti-personnelfie 
and your Norman Bates Motelfie. 
   Their Solid Xerogelfie
(as it flaunts its daunting smellfie)
fells our Dhammazedi Bellfie
and Rossini's William Tellfie.
   Their Celtic Clootie Wellfie,
which dispells my Asphodelfie
and your Seventh Ring Of Hellfie,
pelts S. Claus's Fav'rite Elfie.
   Their Columbian Cartelfie,
with your So Long, Fare Thee Wellfie
and my Third-Grade Show-'n'-Tellfie:
not a one's "just one more selfie." 

Litany Chanted Over Schrƶdinger's Box

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