Which...?

So: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?
Sebastian Bach? Scheherazade? Baum's Tik-Tok? People of the Pod?
Lo: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

So: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

Dan Blocker? Wynken, Blynken, Nod? Vom Himmel hock…aka God?
No...? Which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

So: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

Thor’s Ragnarok? Th’ Impaler ("Vlahd")? Mon Frere Jacques? Gen’ral Zod?
Doh! Which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

So: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

La Baby Doc? (Like fils, like “dahd”!) Ben’s Gaylord Focker? Sweeney Todd?
Yo! Which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

So: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

Val’s “Do you grok?”? Marquis de Sade? Your dad in Dockers? Aaron’s rod?
Bro: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

So: which the Rocker? Which the Mod?

John Locke? Joe Cocker? Elle (“The Bod”)? Trump’s stump: “Up, lock ‘er!” F**k that sod!
Whoa! 

(Which the Rocker? Which the Mod?)

The Characteristic Middle Initials of the Occasionally Rich and Moderately Famous: an Open-ended ABC

A: A.  Milne, Y.  Tittle, Desir  Armfeldt, "...Witch  Woman..."
       ^            ^                ^                          ^

B: Louis  Meyer, Alice  Toklas, Cecil  DeMille, Johnny  Goode, Ab  Hoffman 
           ^                 ^                 ^                      ^               ^


C: Jennie  Riley, Arthur  Clarke, W.  Fields, C.  Rider, K.  Jones, M.  Hammer


D: John  Rockefeller, Robert  Nero, Kermit  Frog,


E: Robert  Lee, e.  cummings, John  Depp, Tom  Tomorrow


F: John  Kennedy, William  Buckley, Hugh  Ner


G: Edward  Robinson, Warren  Harding, Geor  Porgey


H: D.  Lawrence, Jesus  Christ!


I: M.  Blue, Dal  Llama


J: Oliver  Dragon, Simple  Malarkey, Lee  Cobb, Stephen  Gould


K: Shai  Ophir, W.  Kellogg


L: John  Lewis, John  Sullivan, L.  Cool-J, L.  Bean


M: I.  Pei, George  Cohan


N: Sgt. Jim  Smithe-Magee, Morg  LeFay, Em  Em


O: David  Selznik, Scarlett  Hara


P: J.  Morgan, I.  Freeley


Q: John  Public, Robert  Lewis, Herr  l'Poirot


R: Edward  Murrow, Babb  the Elephant


S: Ulysses  Grant, B.  Pully


T: P.  Barnum, P.  Green


U: R.  Sleeping, Moon  Zappa


V: Eugene  Debs, Har  Lembeck 


W: George  Bush


X: Francis  Bushman


Y: Hy  d'Andansome, E.  Harburg


Z: Maire  Doats, John  DeLorean

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Critics have suggested that "condoled" or "consoled" be substituted for the fable's "cajol'd," but no mss have been found to support such readings. In any case, the moral, that the gold is useless if never used, remains the same. 

Cott is an abbreviation for Cotta who, as the second frame's footnote states,  is the archetypal miser appearing in a satirical epistle by 18th-century poet Alexander Pope.

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Commentary

Perry Index number for this fable is #140.