MINUS AND PLUS
Parker Minus and Hilda Plus
married under an overturned bus
They honeymooned near the firth of Forth
and went to live in Dakota North
Soon disappearing from history’s notice
they left behind their lone son Otis
Otis became a noted attorney
haunting many an ambulance gurney
Alas he died without any issue
excepting three bastards and one tiny Miss Cue
A SENTENCE BY THOMAS HARDY
Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.
Go, Tommy, go.
CARTOON FRIDAY 88
JEEVES AND BERTIE
Bertie: Oh, Jeeves.
Jeeves: Sir?
Bertie: I’ve been running the old brain a race, and frankly, Jeeves, I’m stumped.
Jeeves: Might I inquire in what regard, sir?
Bertie: It’s kudus and impalas, Jeeves, kudus and impalas. Can’t keep ’em straight. What’s the blasted difference between a kudu and an impala?
Jeeves: An impala, sir, is a large brownish African antelope that in the male has slender lyrate horns, whereas the kudu, in contrast, is a large grayish brown African antelope with large annulated spirally twisted horns.
Bertie: Thank you, Jeeves, and you really do think I should keep this two day growth of beard for the part?
Jeeves: Trust me, sir.
ANOTHER LIMERICK A LA LEAR
There was a Young Person of Fallon
Who drank lager beer by the gallon
When admonished, she uttered, “Do you like your buns buttered?”
That salacious Young Person of Fallon
THE CREATURE’S VACATION LAGOON
The creature from the Black Lagoon vacations at Lake Tahoe for a bit of snowboarding. He stays in this convenient condo lagoon. He doesn’t dare to descend into the lake itself for fear of meeting up with the vacationing Loch Ness Monster, his arch nemesis.
JACK DOES HIS THING
EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN
A SENTENCE BY H. RIDER HAGGARD
Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.
That about sums it up, wouldn’t you agree? H., . to his friends, wrote one of my all time favorites, SHE. (who must, of course, be obeyed.)







