(2/16) It's grey,
(2/17) my frien,'
(2/18) it's grey...
(2/19) ...again.
(2/20) It's grey.
(2/21) Since when...?
(2/22) Ten days
(2/23) 'tis been --
(2/24) ten out
(2/25) o' ten.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
SpoonBread
Too young to leave her
mum, this lass still
bakes -- fast -- cherry
pies.*
What's choc'late-like, with
notes of Bosc and
Danjou: pear-y
chais.
Moral:
First, eat and drink. Then -- later -- think.
* The traditional song "Billy Boy, Billy Boy"
tells of a girl who can "bake a cherry pie
in the twinkling of an eye" but is "a young
thing who cannot leave her mother."
mum, this lass still
bakes -- fast -- cherry
pies.*
What's choc'late-like, with
notes of Bosc and
Danjou: pear-y
chais.
Moral:
First, eat and drink. Then -- later -- think.
* The traditional song "Billy Boy, Billy Boy"
tells of a girl who can "bake a cherry pie
in the twinkling of an eye" but is "a young
thing who cannot leave her mother."
Monday, February 24, 2020
A New "Wind" Wannabe Book Review in Verse: Jawin' Wid Amin
Jawin' Wid Amin:
Conversations with the
Ugandan Dictator About Life,
Love & Whatnot
by Gaby "Mugabby" Mitchell
"'Idiot Idi'
coarse critics decry you,"
Ms. Gaby Mugabby
addresses Amin.
"Submit me those gobshites,"
the dictator dictates.
"All've exited -- them and
them's fam'lies -- the scene."
"So, Id': have you anyone
new in your life...?"
pivots Mitchell. "New soulmate...?
New girlfriend...? New wife...?"
"I confess I've no time
for careers of such kind...
what with slaughterin' subjects
post robbin' 'em blind."
Conversations with the
Ugandan Dictator About Life,
Love & Whatnot
by Gaby "Mugabby" Mitchell
"'Idiot Idi'
coarse critics decry you,"
Ms. Gaby Mugabby
addresses Amin.
"Submit me those gobshites,"
the dictator dictates.
"All've exited -- them and
them's fam'lies -- the scene."
"So, Id': have you anyone
new in your life...?"
pivots Mitchell. "New soulmate...?
New girlfriend...? New wife...?"
"I confess I've no time
for careers of such kind...
what with slaughterin' subjects
post robbin' 'em blind."
Sunday, February 23, 2020
SpoonSpawn
We are, we're all
told, sons of God.
Home arsenal...?
Holds guns of sod.
Moral:
Is that thing loaded...?
told, sons of God.
Home arsenal...?
Holds guns of sod.
Moral:
Is that thing loaded...?
Spooncognito
Guess who!
Guess who!
Guess who!
(Bal masque)
One Spanish
stinkeroo:
Mal Basque...?
Moral:
Costume ball...? Not at all.
Guess who!
Guess who!
(Bal masque)
One Spanish
stinkeroo:
Mal Basque...?
Moral:
Costume ball...? Not at all.
Spooner Rabbit
Uncle's tricksters'
tales Joel tells to you...?
Br'er Rabbit.
Sign'd edition,
1922...?
Rare Babbitt
Moral:
All -- Lewis 'n' Harris 'n' Remus -- ensnare us!
tales Joel tells to you...?
Br'er Rabbit.
Sign'd edition,
1922...?
Rare Babbitt
Moral:
All -- Lewis 'n' Harris 'n' Remus -- ensnare us!
Oui! Spoon
Come on, babies!
Do the Locomotion!
Pepe's scabies...?
Smooth on Moko* lotion!
Moral:
Hey! No Jazzbah in the Casbah!
* Pepe le Moko is a fictional
jewel thief who hides out in Algiers.
Do the Locomotion!
Pepe's scabies...?
Smooth on Moko* lotion!
Moral:
Hey! No Jazzbah in the Casbah!
* Pepe le Moko is a fictional
jewel thief who hides out in Algiers.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
The Spooniad
Spooner source…?
The Trojan Horse.
Gift of Greeks
or grift of geeks…?
Moral:
No hoi polloi avoided Troy.
Spoon Your Prayers
The Book of Common Prayer:
a copy's in your pew.
A Pooka-bombin' c'reer
ain't no vocation I'd pursue.
Moral:
Raise swords! Praise Lords!
a copy's in your pew.
A Pooka-bombin' c'reer
ain't no vocation I'd pursue.
Moral:
Friday, February 21, 2020
Spoon Sandwich
Bacon,
lettuce:
BLT chef’s
chief ingredi-
ents.
chief ingredi-
ents.
Lacan* bet
us:
“All y'all know of
lingo makes no
sense.”
lingo makes no
sense.”
Moral:
You say 'tomato'...? So: what do you think I say...?
* Controversial French psychoanalyst
Jacques Lacan
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Spoon Fed
No! You bit the hand that feeds you...?
Such behavior ain't so nice.
Besides, you laugh'd off circumspection.
So: you'd fit the band that heeds you...?
Give 'em rock-'n'-roll advice
and they'll approve your groove direction.
Moral:
And a-one...and a-two...and a-you know what to do.
Such behavior ain't so nice.
Besides, you laugh'd off circumspection.
So: you'd fit the band that heeds you...?
Give 'em rock-'n'-roll advice
and they'll approve your groove direction.
Moral:
And a-one...and a-two...and a-you know what to do.
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