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Here is the “finished” portrait and eponymous acrostic of Patrick Stewart. Something was lost in the finishing: freshness/likeness. Something was gained: the words that solved the poeticization.

Here are the words:

Picard is SF, so’s Prof X–he plays ’em nonetheless
And fans of Wm. S. and Sammy B. are by him blest
The savviest of thespians will not go toe to toe
Respectfully they take a pew & watch & learn & grow
Intensity is always there from starring role to extra
Comedic, tragic, bleak to brilliant thwarts the glibbest texter
King Lear, King Faud, King Kong, Candide–he’d be in all parts expert

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After nine and a half hours on the job, the next five-at-least better be in Slumberland.

PS WIP equals Patrick Stewart Work In Progress. I tried doing a PS a few years ago; people thought the drawing was good, but they couldn’t tell who it was.

hey stupid

limpid
pallid
tepid
foetid
turgid
fervid

all neatly packaged concept words

stupid

not so much
misleading
originally referencing stupefaction
now indicative of a lack of smarts

humid

has moisture written all over it,
doesn’t it?
you feel like you need a shower just hearing about it,
don’t you?

the relative stupidity is twenty-two percent
and rising
the loved-one stupidity slightly more
or less
the stranger stupidity you don’t want
to know

too soon

too soon
four ohs in seven letters
it is a minidirge
it scolds and mourns
and speaks of a wounded psyche

monsoon
the word means ‘rainy season’
and so “monsoon season”
means ‘rainy season season’
come let us reason

oolong
three ohs in six letters
but it need not only mean tea
it could be delight for her who likes long
and has found it

oblong
see above
add an ell and you have loblong
and that could mean tennis
or more of the above

sun myung moon was a fraud
yes a biiiiiiig fraud
he served time in america
to keep all americans
free

These lay no claim to being true Haiku or Senryu. The only concession to form is five syllable first line, seven syllable second line, five syllable third line.

koanku

petulant cosmos:
“i didn’t ask to be made.”
here is god’s reply:

gritku

up all night down soon
now at that inbetween grit;
soul’s undies twisted,

alakudabra

the real magic trick:
convincing via mere words
that words make magic

crestfallku

waves and heraldry
both involve crests borne on high
and abysmal troughs

rhymes-with-keenness ku

greed to racetrack to
purse money to breeding: greed
makes fine equineness

wow-obsolescence ku

blog ability
would have shaken the earth once
now it’s mundane

sob wows: a lesson/ku

spectacular tears
of mrs. willy loman
are a graveyard smash

loudfingerku

all those nerve endings
intended to thrill the brain
scream like hell when mashed

return to senderku

‘dust to dust’ does not
give aid and/or comfort–just
accurate info

fin alley ku

sharks in the alley
await the grand finale;
let’s skip it, shall we?

halving an oft day

i cot myself sheafing this mourning,
and then i tied trying my choose.
the popcorn yinyanged, its tao corning
as greensward gave berth to the blues.

went driveling oft to my woofplace
and clogged in presizedly at seven.
the cubic hold tolled off a jerkface
and bread had more film at a leaven.

then lungetime, and thyme to crees forehead,
the voice in my forehood felt faint.
it spoked of a spooklier warsaid,
and saintlier aintlier daint.

three churros for dayend dessertion
and laycheck in latent elation.
the clogout was functory whirr shun
width dogfood dude ken l. oration.

then holm and its dinned dear and moo vee
then biddybye with a comped banyan.
comp won and comped awl, slipping tubey,
an oft day not halved baaed to spannion.

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This is dedicated to all of us who have struggled against a bad habit and succeeded, however fleetingly.

Here are the words to the double (and double-entendre) acrostic:

YO! Quit that AWFUL habit! Play it straight
Your quality of H O P E will escalate
Obsequious, the vice purveyors win
Obliquely when the helpless rack up sins
Ubiquity might keep us on the trail
Uniqueness and good Purpose gets us hale

Astute observers will have noticed six of the letter Q lined up on the left side of the poem/array, and six of the letter P lined up on the right. Coincidence? Absolutely not. I have done my best to mind my Ps and Qs. [wicked smile]

My Goodness

Goodness as my ocelot
Prowls and stalks and pounces;
Goodness as my boss-a-lot
Finger-points and flounces.

Goodness as my wunderkind
Dazzles with precocity.
Goodness as my shark thin-finned
Counterstrikes atrocity.

Goodness as a way of life
Sculpts my face in furrows;
Goodness as my fettling knife
Carves where evil burrows.

Goodness as my diplomat
Never needs immunity.
Goodness as my welcome mat:
Dirtied with impunity.

Goodness as my racetrack tout
Urges YOU to place your
Bet on what it’s all about–
Guiding Goodness Glacier.

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Many art supply stores have wooden pose-able models in sizes from keychain to full scale. The one double-track-drawn here is about four inches high. I took approximately the same liberties with flexure and expression as Gene Colan did with his renderings of Iron Man, lo these several decades past.

(About seven years ago I sent “Genial Gene” a gushing fan e-mail, praising his storytelling illustration, and he quickly and nicely answered in true gentleman fashion. Just found out three minutes ago that he died in 2011. Alas! Here’s a link for the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Colan )

Anyway, it occurred to me that these anonymous mannequinesques would make good chess pawns, and I’ve been into grids lately, so…

Here are the words, for the third time, sort of:

Participants should come a’board’–we’ll start ASAP
And then ‘square’ off in reenacted war or game or deal
Whine, loose or drawl: no ‘stale mate’ allowed, nor bargained plea
Nor b’rook’ing op’position’ via mattress glue–too sealy

 

Sift

It had a handle
With an embedded squeezable subhandle
And squeezing would make it make noise

It was called a sifter
Turned coarse flour fine
Employed handheld use of the milling concept

Some beaches have coarse sand
Some fine some unfiltered with sharpedged little shells
(The ocean’s milling has caprice)

Some life events are grainy
Some slide through the strait of the hourglass
With rollercoasteringly dismaying ease

Lapidary work makes for smoother rocks
Wax for a slidey floor
(Wearing socks has been known to cause an involuntary split)

But the hard life facts have unsmoothable grit to them
Though we swap deludings and call it ‘enabling’
(The grittiest fact  is cessation)

Smiles are smoothers
Friendships sifters
Love confectionary (sugar)

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