Improv Action, Plus
The twice-told words:
I never knew what’s who the why of schizophrenia
Mortality uncoils just when the route is getting scenic
Plumbago blue and roses red make violet–it’s neat
Rejoiced in Soda Pop since I was knee-high to a Nehi
One of billions–carbonation China to Ohio
Vinegar and baking soda foam up like Orion
Notes
Two things I want to say about the image. One: the near-sphere in the middle that the guy with the clipboard is either standing on or projected from is a duodecahedron, one of the five “regular solids” whose every facet is some polygon. (The tetrahedron and the cube are two other Regular Solids.) Two: I much enjoyed depicting a cat and a woman sharing a halo.
One more thing
My girlfriend’s son, Sean Wegner, has a birthday today. I did a page on him celebrating not only his birthday but also his deep abiding love for baseball. Several teams are mentioned in this quadruple acrostic…


Pretty.
Thanks!
Holy cat! That must be the first acrostic halo in the history of humanity!
And a question : Should I search for the deeper meaning of why there are two versions of the poem on the page or is it just a case of ‘it happened that way?’
Thanks for the smile-inducing comment!
There’s no deeper meaning of the two versions of the same poem on the page–not really. When I did the poem in my usual convoluted-path calligraphy, I didn’t think it was legible, so I repeated up at the top–then found that design integrity demanded I underlap the repeat with the figure study. This, of course, rendered version #2 just as illegible. But just as there are echoes in real-life nature, and motifs in composition, I thought it would be interesting to have them both as is. When I look at it, though the words are the same, the different presentations yield different feelings, just as gray food coloring will make a meal seem to taste different. Long story short: it did just happen that way, but I chose not to let it unhappen. Thanks again!