M&M's X 2: Four Graphic Marks

 

     In the column to the left 

appear four graphic marks

incorporating the letter M.

     The first represents a

single stylized M atop an

image of a stack of pages.

     The marks were designed 

by illustrator Uly Poe during 

one of his former lives.

     The second represents 

the letters MB contained 

within a graphic rule.

     Poe can no longer recall 

the names of the clients who 

commissioned the marks,

the third of which appears

to portray the letters MC.

     That one is followed by a 

mark introducing the letters 

MW which appear to provide

the data in an economic bar

chart.

     None of the four contain 

milk chocolate, nor do any

feature a thin candy shell.

Clerihews for Uly's Friends & Relations: an Ongoing Series

Adrian Boyer

channels Tom Sawyer --

though instead of lighting out for the territories,

he's heading for Florence, Italy where he'll doubtless enjoy encounters which will make for some intriguing stories. 

Sebastian Boyer,

a reticent warrior,

is nonetheless able to punch out some miscreant's lights

if that scumbag should dare to endanger Seb's fam'ly (although Baz prefers to steer clear of such fights.

Hungry Jazzmen: a Graphic Mark

Poetaster Poe Computes or Wonk at Work

 

You Say "Potato" and I Say "Capsicum Annuum": a Sound Limerick

     In most cases, your second reading 

     will likely prove the poet's intended one. 

Linnaeus! Linnaeus! Linnaeus! 

Carl can knee us...filet us...decry us:
un-unsnarl'd, each expression

breeds one gnarly mess -- 'n'

I loathe how in knots our tongues tie us.

Ubu, Rah! A Nonsense Cradled in a Flapdoodle Nestled in a Poppycock

On the Isle of ArUbu, renown'd for its scUbu, where blows the HaboUbu -- 

where flows a cerulean deep blue DanUbu -- there Winnie-ther-PooUbu, 

with Honey-ther-BooUbu and rapper Ice CUbu, promotes JiffyLUbu's

"We patch innertUbus!"...all re-deconstructed by Goldberg the RUbu.

     (image to come: a work in progress)

The Idylls of Ubu, Canto V: OUR BAY

     Canto VI: OUR BAY

     (Guanabara, San Francisco or Fundy...it all depends on who "our" refers to.)

     (a work in progress)  

The Idylls of Ubu, Canto IV: YORUBA

      Canto IV: YORUBA 

Your Ma's Yoruba...? Good for her! My Ma's Heruba, that's for sure.

And as for me...? Myruba, pure. Our two Ourubas we endure.

Do we embrace Theiruba...? No! Now, Ándale! Arriba!! Go!!!

Our furlough in Aruba's due...nay: overdue! I'm psych'd. (Aren't you...?)

     * A West-African ethnicity common in parts of Nigeria, Benin and Togo.

The Idylls of Ubu, Canto III: IOU RUB

     Canto III: IOU RUB

Although I owe but cannot pay, I'll live to pay another day.
You can't pay either...? Join the club of deadbeat cads! Ah-h-h-h, there's the rub,
for ev'ry club imposes dues (I don't suppose that's breaking news),
and you drank yours at Jarry's Pub on payday last. Hah! There's the nub. 

Poe at P&P

 

   On the poetry shelf at Politics and 

Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, 

recent volumes of the Nonsense 

verses and illustrations of Ulysses 

Poe appear between works by Sylvia 

Plath and those of Maya Popa. (Missing

is his title One, Two, Many! Perhaps

somebody purchased it.) Poe's volumes

can be found as well in the store's

humor section, adjacent to the collected works of Amy Poehler.

The Idylls of Ubu, Canto II: RUI BOU

      Canto II: RUI BOU   

Hachimura downhill runs, a-scorin' buckets and "and one"s.

Within the Liga ACB, would Rui be "El Bou...?" Could be.

     * Power forward for the NBA's Lakers. * When a player dribbles past defenders while heading towards the basket in order to score, she is said 

to be "going downhill." * Making a basket is "scoring a bucket." * A single 

free-throw awarded after a player is fouled while successfully scoring a 

basket. * The top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball 

league system. * "The Ox" in the Catalan language. *Do we smell trade 

rumors...?