Runcibl'd Spooners Head for the Picture Palace

      Let's get a mov(i)e on!

Gains the world but loses sled:    

Citizen Kane.

Ms. Cornell’s clean off her head...?

Kit is insane.

     Moral: 
Some Xanadu, some Xanadon't.

*   *   *   *   *

Bent unions longshoremen 
refuse to take part in:

On the Waterfront.

The Mexican stand-in 

for blacklisted marten...?

Juan the Otter Front.

     Moral:
His border wall's a Drumpfian quirk.
Be that as may, let's go to work!

Earth From Space (So They Say)

She were born in Debaqqamee, Handustan,

to two tough nuts from Lower deBoome --

or so I’ve been given 
to understand, driven

by works from the ballpoint of Hume.

She were rais’d in Toronto, Ontario,

in a household of Canada geese

who, engulf’d (past-due bills), 
soon bequeath’d their best quills

to a paperback writer in Greece.

As a child, 'midst the mists of mid-dimnights,
when Sargassos flow iciest cold,
she would slip from her bed, 
slip her slip o'er her head
and let rip: skinny dipping (I'm told). 

Retro Virus Verses or Cuomo's Complaint

C commences 
     ‘club-cast’ plu-pro-
          jections...

O opines: "It’s 
     ‘overstay’d’ its 
          time"...

V its 'viru-
     lence' vatici-
          nates (it's very 
               virulent)...

I...? ‘Infectious’ 
     (not ‘internal’ 
          rhyme)...

D denotes the 
     ‘distancing’ (a-
          social)...

19 months it 
     (vaccine) takes to 
          find...

Link 'em! They be 
     spelling ‘COVID-
          19.’

All shot to hell's my 
     New York state of 
          mind!

Red- and Blue-State Bunnies Frolic: Chemical Markers on a Large Grade A

"And now it's complete."
                     -- Ulysses Poe

A Rummy Nose

     "A nose is a terrible thing to blow." 

                                    -- Donald Rumsfeld

"You've got your known noses,

your unknown noses,

your known unnoses,

your unknown unnoses,
your runny noses,
your unrunny noses,
your runny unnoses
and your unrunny unnoses.

A Lazy Afternoon

Stitch liturgies re letter G...?
'Midst plethoras of lethargy...?

POTUS Pillories the Press Corps

    Dedicated to those members 
of the press corps who aren't here 
but should be...and soon shall.
    
"CNNer Kaitlan Collins
was, I'm told, a date of Stalin's.
ABC News Jon'than Karl...?
'That's not true,' Karl's prone to snarl."
     "Petty Shannon Pettypiece:

We'd better phone the truth police.

AP’s Jonathan Lemire…?

Oh, by the way, he's odd. And queer."

"News Hour biche Yamiche Alcindor:

Newsday ought to’ve Anne Boleyn’d ‘er.

Bloomberg News’s Justin Sink…?

The dext’rous Duke of Doublethink."

     "The Times’s Maggie Haberman.

A plu-unpleasant neighbor, man!

NPR gal Tam’ra Keith…?

Obtuse up top, zip underneath."

"The New York Times’s Peter Baker.

Hold the muck: ol’ Pete'll rake 'er.

CBS’s Paula Reid…?

I think I, with her, did the deed."

     "Bezos boyo Philip Rucker.

Like his boss, another sucker.

Fake News WaPo’s Ashley Parker…?

Brother Bezos' side show barker."

"New York Times’s Michael Shear.

The failing pub’s fail'd pamphleteer.

A U R N’s April Ryan:

Lyin’ Brian Williams’ scion."

     "The New York Times’s Annie Karni.

Who knew Jews to broadcast blarney…?

Reuters Jimmy Oliphant:

Can or can't he cut the cant…?"

"Peter, Peter Alexander!

Soon I’ll sue his ass for slander.

Ms. O’Donnell (christen’d Kelly)…?

Too true blue for prime-time telly."

     "Fox News Radio’s Jon Decker.

One pontificating pecker.

Fox News Channel’s Kevin Cork.

Part-time putz and full-time dork."

     "Roberts, John. Acosta, Jim.

I cannot stomach eith’rof him.

Welker, Kristen. Jackson, Hallie.

Much preferr’d…? A campaign rally."

     "CBS’s Major Garrett.

Ignoramus -- 14-caret.

Press corps! Please leave me alone!

And where’s my freakin’ Roy M. Cohn…?"

A Mixology Briefing from the Bartender-in-Chief

     It's Fallback Friday. Pick his poison!

"I tell my base in rampant candor:

'Try my Brandy Purexander!'

Flat out stuff the ballot box...

then try my Clorox on the Rocks!

For giving virus rumors rest,

my Piña Colalysol’s best.

And, no! I don't know Mussolini.

Meantime, try my Boratini!"

     Coda

"My hunch...? A touch of indigestion's
 actin' up. Still...no more questions."

Limericks in the Light of COVID

Lewis Carroll’s kid, Coventry, asks,

“At mad tea parties, must we wear masks…?”

The lad’s daddy replies,

“He who doesn't don dies.

He who does in beamoshity basks.”

Mervyn Peake's son (a offspring call'd Pikes)...?
The most id'osyncratic of tykes:
he's injecting himself
with chlorine off the shelf.
Have you ever heard tell of the likes...?

Limerickyricardo

     Here's an example of a verse form named 
after a county in Ireland and featuring a fellow 
from a county in England who penned some.

Edward Lear sires one daughter, call'd Shanda.
Fixing fruit hats for Carmen Miranda,
does she tell her dad that
she's "re-pear'd" her last hat
'less she, too's, 'llow'd to sing with the band...? Duh! 

Verse Brief, Illustrated (World's Second Shortest Poem)

          ...and yet...