new pain awakens you. its stamp/impresses in the form of cramp.
the lamprey sucks. the hamptons bask./do lamps when clamped on desk-edge ask/enlightenment of us? they don’t./they have no will; they have no won’t.
slow down the car. the exit ramp/says k o a, a place to camp,/to sample nature and relief/and tamp down stress and angst and grief./the scampering of squirrels calms/and wine and amped-up tunes are balms.
this launch has not achieved ignition/with syllaballic repetition/we therefore move to cut the crap/and bid the grampa take a nap.
“The right word is the unexpected word.” Frederik Pohl, introducing The Best of Cordwainer Smith
three caffeines and i am wired/good to go no longer tired/let my wordsmith’s finger wield/this touch-sensitivish field
word be whirrd near-homophonic/aspirate that aitch atonic/ascertain a certain smuggish/air when jazzed-up coffee-muggish
tighten up those loosish ens/comically let’s be frenz¹/tragic cali mourn our bros²
we may see them
no one noes
..
¹Ron Frenz. “Ronald Wade ‘Ron’ Frenz (born February 1, 1960) is an American comics artist known for his work for Marvel Comics. He is well known for his 1980s work on The Amazing Spider-Man, particularly introducing the hero’s black costume, and later for his work on Spider-Girl and Thor…” Wikipedia
²Along with my nuclear family, I have lost brotherly cousins of the Householder clan who lived in California.
The bustard’s an exquisite fowl/With minimal reason to growl/He escapes what would be/Illegitimacy/By grace of a fortunate vowel. Winning entry from 10,000 entrants of a limerick contest judged by Isaac Asimov
sixteen pieces in a chess set but for color
and four and four and four and two and two
and sixty-four
and the answers of multiple-choice tests with perfect scores
but it is the near-identical
the not-quite-identical
that gives a field of flowers charm
that enriches speciation
that makes one coin worth a penny
and its near-twin worth a mint
ah mints
junior mints are corpuscular
andes mints are sandwiched planks
and there was a place called Luigi’s on sixteenth Street and Glendale fifty years ago
a delicatessen that sold french mints
and i would get some for my then-sweetheart
because she loved them and i loved her
.
isn’t it startling that a group of vastly different people can have identical names?
isn’t it more startling that you can view a group of vastly different people with identical names within seconds by conducting a search on that name and selecting the Images subset of the search?
One type of Ogee is a cutout shape involving both convex and concave curvature. The ogee arches sketched above have apical points.
Gingerbreading is use of a motif for trim to enhance windows or ledges. Some older architecture in downtown Phoenix features gingerbreading.
“Ogee Whiz” is pun-translatable into “Oh, Gee Whiz.” That’s a Bad Pun, but a worse one would be if I tagged a snowblank with the contents of my bladder with the monogram “OG.” It would not stand for “Original Gangsta” nor “Old Guy” but would be simply OG, and since it would be made from urine, colloquially known as Whiz, it would be OG Whiz.
Notes: The early game of Basketball involved a peach basket. Ella Fitzgerald recorded “A-Tisket A-Tasket” in 1938, overriding the objections of her record label, and her career skyrocketed. Baskets come in many different custom, function-related designs. The Urban Dictionary has five pages’ worth of words and phrases involving variations of “basket.” “MacGyver” was a TV series whose main character was famous for improvising solutions to dire situations with unusual materials at hand. And Catholic uniforms got dragged in by the heels simply because of a need for a rhyme with “lattices.”
One with Clay, Image and Text 