Papa…? Not!: A BotchuLit

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. 
One sole shows brane barf…very!

(Who credits that op'ning to Ernest 

savvy string the'rists caution: "Be wary!")

      -- Ulysses Poe and Anonymous

The Whip-Poor-Willephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam -- With Coda

Whip-Poor-Willephants combine 
prehensile trunks with song. 
These crossbreeds’ noses…? Serpentine. 
Their chirrups…? Overlong. 

Mulephants ‘n’ Molephants 

be crossbreeds, ev’ry one.

I’ll add to that pair Volephants. 

With that I think I’m done. 

The Gazellephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam

Gazellephants, despite their girth, 

cavort about -- have done since birth.

Big ears, big horns: they're proud of both

their size and plu-prodigious growth.

Addiction: A BotchuLIt

I wandered lonely as a cloud,
and now I, clearly loaded, use.

Excuse me while, before I nod, 

I these illicit drugs abuse. 

   -- Ulysses Poe and William Wordswoth 

The Crocodylephant: Another Animalephant Amalgam

The Crocodylephant is famed
for plu-prestigious ears
as well (for these he's most ashamed)
as crocodilian tears.

The Mandrillephant; Or, The Schizophrenic Chimpachyderm: Another Animalephant Amalgam

Tho' Mandrillephant's mem'ry's impressive,
his deportment skews borderline feral.
In a heartbeat his mood turns aggressive.
One makes nice with such beasts at one's peril.

R.I.P. Wm. Cody: A BotchuLit

Buffalo Bill's defunct,  
bein' stuffed full o' blac-... 
(Now where's that pesky silent k...?

I sorely need it back.) 

     -- Ulysses Poe and e. e. cummings

The White Whale: A BotchuLit

Call me Ishmael, 
a clam shlemiel --  
as opposed to, say, a mussel shlimazel 
(though neither's a kosher meal). 

   -- Ulysses Poe and Herman Melville

Frandaboo Bullydjinn (verses to come)

 

"Jethro" : A Partial Portrait

An incomplete drawing:

"Jethro" 

from "Damp Hen Days" 

Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils on photocopy paper

7" x 10 " 

by Ulysses {"Uly"} Poe

Rev'd Spooner Meets Rev'd Carroll

 

He sought to thaw  

each thought he saw 

fly, frozen, from his mind. 

He gazed once more, 

then, dazed, he swore, 

supposin' he'd gone blind.