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Saturday, July 25, 2020

The 2020 Pepi Katona Anagramadness Pageant & Triennial "Talk Like a Tracy" Competition

     We here at PWWL have tested positive for the Katona virus 
and we don't care who knows it. As Pepi might say, "Draw your 
own conclusions!" (As Pirovitch might comment,"Who did this 
dreadful thing...?") 

Pepi Katona                 Matuschek and Co's former errand boy.
Po' Kate: "I nap!"         Li'l Orphan Katherine does little but sleep these days.
A peak pinot.               A '12 or '14, probably. 
Oink, eat pap!             Plunk your magic... Slurp your lovely swill, Piggy.

Oink ate Pap.              Hog gobbl'd up Daddy.
Kapitän Poe                Commander of the Starship Ulalume.
Nappie OK...? Ta.        My diaper in place...? Thanks.
EPA: not Paki!             One agent is sure she was dink.

I kept a p'ano.            I kept a gu'tar as well, didn't I.
Kent, IA: pop. A.         A certain Mr. A. is the sole inhabitant of Kent, Iowa.
A pinko pate.              Marxist intellectual.
A pinko pâté.              Marxist hors d’oeurvre.

Pa Pio taken.              Italian stigmatist kidnapped. 
Apia knot PE               Samoan “pretzel” calisthenics.
Pepin to a Ka              Letter from Frankish king to a subject's soul. 
Opa! Pink tea!            This stuff's even better than ouzo...well, almost.       

Take no pipa!             You're allow'd a single liuqin, however.       
Aka one Tipp.             The scoundrel uses several aliases.
An okapi, Pet.            It's a kind of antelope, my dear.
Ape a inkpot!             You're already a ebon incorrigible, aren't ya. 

Opiate knap.              Remedy-in-a-rucksack, eh...?
A knot; a pipe.           A gnarl; a corncob.   
"P" Ape ain't ok.        Tho' "O" Ape and "Q" Ape seem perfectly fine. 
A poet; a pink.          Second line of the poem "A bard; a carnation."

Tap on a kepi.            Hi, there, legionnaire! 
A pea pint...? Ok!       I've never tried legume-hopp'd beer before.
Note I Kappa...?         Is the Japanese water demon here...?
Patina poke.              Rust caddy.

No pike tapa.             Lack of fish scale textile.
Appoint Åke.              Surely the best Swede for the job.
Pa’O pink tea.             An acquired taste, even in Mandalay.
A. Pope, I. Kant.         Wise guys.

Shenanagram: Don't Tell Don!

PERSON...MAN...WOMAN...CAMERA...TV

NO "WARP" CAN MEAN SMART MOVE. 

"Remember These
5 Clouds &
Repeat 'Em Back
to Me in 15 or
20 Minutes"
colored pencils
on copy paper,
digitally modified,
by Ulysses Poe

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Person And So On: a Moronic Mnemonic

Admitted: as maladies worsen,

one forgets ev’ry thing, place 'n' person.

We're inform'd stable geniuses can

reap their recall. I’m not such a man.

Not one soldier (I’d guess) in a tuman*

wields such memory -- much less one woman.

Half a mo! My old ex-, name of Tamara,

took a cognitive test once, in camera.

It reveal’d she’d contracted VD!

(You'll not view this on cable TV.)

     * 10,000-person Mongol military unit

"My old ex-,
name of Tamara"
pencil on copy paper,
digitally modified, 
by Ulysses Poe


Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Asstounding!

     Butt, Montana; The Yucatan's Cheeksen Itza;Crackow, Popoland; 
Biggerta, Cobumbia (not to mention the Pampass of Arsengentina and 
the Outback of Asstralia) are also nominees to asstounding spothood. 
"World's Most Asstounding Spots: Malibooty Breach, Callipygia;
Bethleham, Bunsylfannya; Dallass, Texass & Keister Island"
chemical marker on copy paper, digitally modified,
by Ulysses Poe

Monday, July 20, 2020

Show A Little!

Who pens such patent prattle airs a droll imagination.

Who covets Kim in “Picnic” bares a soulful Madge-ination.
Who chuckles “What, me worry...?” vaunts a gleeful Mad-ination.
Who votes for Drumpf in spite of Drumpf flaunts lethal MAGA-nation.

              Who howls at Hawkeye’s hijinks shows his silly M.A.S.H.-ination.
Who dines on sushi roll’d in seaweed poses maki-nation.
Who welcomes wizards bearing myrrh disports Three-Magi-nation.
Who pre-dawn prayer prefers exhorts a vig'lant Matin'-ation.

              Aristotelia chilensis knows a maqui-nation.
Who ne'er sails west without stout charts sows careful map-ination.
Who Sammy Davis Jr stalks displays Will Mastination.
Who’s nuts for Dallas basketball sprays avid Mav-ination.

             Who screens films 53 feet tall supplies IMAX-ination. 
Who's heard retelling tales -- in Welsh, yet! -- plies the Mabinogion. 
Who dips into “The Prince” wails Machiavellian machination.
D'you not agree: whoe’er he be, he nails 'imagination'…?

"I Must Dress / Mister Suds"
A shenanagram
in colored pencils on illustration board
by Ulysses Poe

Runcibl'd Spooner: Strictly Ballroom

     Aristotle famously observes: "Words are equivocal." 
Ps-Aristotle, reading the runciblosity below, agrees: 
“'Keen Jelly'...? Just a dram one takes 
to lubricate wild Irish wakes."
 
Gene Kelly:
God o' Dance, he sings in the rain.
Keen Jelly:
Gotta dance...? It stings...? Use for pain.

     Moral:
Some feet don't have it;
others have.
All feet, though, now and then,
need salve.

"Feet Possibly Requiring Salve II"
(detail)
colored pencil on illustration board,
digitally modified,
by Ulysses Poe

Sunday, July 19, 2020

The Song of an Asylum Seeker

     Nota bene: asylum seekers sing more than one song, e.g.,

"I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, but woke up in detention.

My new plan is to fly these walls into the Fourth Dimension."

 
I’ll never dwell in Cozumel,
in Lagos or Lahore.
I’ll ne'er call ‘home’ Mumbai or Rome,
nor Seoul or Singapore.
     I’ll rent no flat in Gujarat,
in Lima or Taiwan.
I’ll say, “No way!” to San Jose,
to Delhi and Milan.
     No pied-a-terre in Buenos Air-
es, Bangor or Shanghai.
Shall I break groun' in London town
or Istanbul…? Not I!
     I’ll share no pad in Hyd’rabad.
or Guatemala City.
Sans domicile -- ancestral pile --
I'm homeless...more’s the pity.

"Genuine / Ingenue"
A shenanagram based on Little Buttercup from Gilbert & Sullivan's
"H.M.S. Pinafore," in colored pencils on illustration board,
digitally modified, by Ulysses Poe




Saturday, July 18, 2020

Twospoons

Round heels

Pre-Code slang applied to sluts.

Hound reels

Class of films highlighting mutts.


     Moral:

Cavé die kinder canésque les cunts!*

(“Work not with hookers or beasties 

or runts!”  -- ps-W.C. Fields)

     * In Latin with some German and 

a soupçon of French.


"Rhonda Roundheels"
colored pencil on
copy paper
by Ulysses Poe



   











Buster Keaton

A comic (deadpan). Talking…? None!

Custer Beaten

Anomic dead man walking, done!

    

     Moral:

While shy man shoots “The General,”

wild Cheyenne shoots the general.

Friday, July 17, 2020

Pivot: Vanishingly Improbable Pronouncements from Tom Thrumbpf, Citizen



     















N.B.: Several late versions of this episode in the strip, none 
authoritative, replace 'pussy' in panel #2 with 'pinky.'  -- U.P.

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Matres Tribus (Three Mothers): Imaginary Biopics in Meter & Rhyme by Ulysses Poe with Images by the Author

Below's deploy'd a trio of socio activists -- all actual or
potential moms -- whom you ought to know a lot more
about. But you will need to research them yourself. In
the meantime, here are three thumbnail portraits -- 
and this reminder: there are many more than three BL
maters. (And plenty of paters, too: cf last line of poem.)
 
Sing out, "How-DEE!" 
to Opal T.,
the well-known Black Lives mater.
Tometi fights
for human rights
as writer, educator,
as agitator, 
organizer...
(More 'bout Opal later.)

Now meet Ali-
cia Garza. She...?
Another Black Lives mater,
who strives to teach
the soul of each
'n' ev'ry woman-hater
to "apogee"
their enmity:
one BLM creator.

One more: Patrisse
Kahn-Cullors, peace-
ful envoy, Black Lives mater --
fine artisan. 
(Me...? I'm a fan.
My cousin wants to date 'er.)
Three Black Lives Matter 
matriarchs.
There protest no "moms" greater.

But ask your housemaid or your waiter:
Harriet...?* A Black Lives mater.
      Ask calypso's Lord Invader:
Fannie Lou...?** A Black Lives mater.
     Ask James Banning, aviator:
Rosa Parks...? A Black Lives mater.
     Ask the Pequod's navigator:
Daisy Bates...? A Black Lives mater.
     Ask your fire pit's excavator:
Dorothy Height...? A Black Lives mater.
     Ask that quiz show moderator:
Diane Nash...? A Black Lives mater.
     Ask each Tot you're sure's a Tater:
S. P. Clark...? A Black Lives mater.

     John R. Lewis...? Advocator,
freedom fighter, Black Lives pater!

     * Harriet Tubman   
     ** Fannie Lou Hamer


     Notes on Opal, Alicia and Patrisse 

When but a second grader, young Opal hops a freighter,
one bound for the equator -- nor do her bros dissuade her.
     Garza's radish grater's deploy'd for Shabbat seder --
all so she need not cater that meal...nor none upbraid her.
     A Marxist incubator, a former Oakland Raider
and honorary 'Gator, Patrisse once plump'd for Nader.

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