G E O F F R E Y   C R U I C K S H A N K - H A G E N B U C K L E
&   J E F F R E Y   J U L L I C H
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ALPHABESTIARY

 

 

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Grrrr!* Eat Kellogg's Frosted Flakes from sty trough, piglet, as if
eyeless in Tangiers you jumped hopskotch across wet bones,
or came red-handed out of snooping Marie Antoinette toilette,
unbuttoned pearls. "Voyeur integer's square root" for math whiz. Purr!
Ghost-read your poor hip pocket novel. Baa! up sheep's ptoot'
studded with miniature pearls for period punctuation. Twit!

For Dante, the sun symbolized not only God but arithmetic.
The unreal nymphs were hallucinating visions of Petrarch again,
Petrarch performing banal tasks: scraping lambskin for parchment . . .

"Cawdor." Hoot! "Theis uamo thune." You cheater, you cheater.

Petrarch riding the dolphin like Triton, repressing (choking back) the tears:
one eyed whale. . . one blowhole Cyclops

                                                               (the teepee, Hiawatha.)

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*(NOTE: Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of "Tony The Tiger" on Kellogg's Frosted
Flakes commercials: 1937: The Sportsmen Quartet on the Jack Benny Show; 1942-7:
Air Transport Command navigator, flew Bob Hope to Casablanca for USO X-Mas
show; as part of The Mellomen, sang Zorro theme song; voice of The Grinch; etc.,
etc.)

Bats bark at a black cat bone. Carnivals: Jean-Louis Barrault calling, "Garance!
Garance!" piteously. Ermine collar has a fancy name brand for weasel couturier.

 

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