Ode to the Open Society

Why does it call itself open?
Its doors are rudely closed to me!
Methinks there's a Magister Deluded
Confusing "Open Society" with . . .

"Open Sesame"

Ode to the Beats

Those of literary substance pall
And look askance on what we wits think
Take Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Vidal -
...
THE FOUR HOARSE MEN
OF THE APOCALIPSYNCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Abstinence

A drink a day

. . .

. . .

Keeps the shrink away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ode to the AIDS Hoax

Mares eat oats
And does eat oats
And little lambs
Eat HIV ...*

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* "Eat" in the colloquial sense of "to swallow an absurd, idiotic untruth"; "be taken in"; "be deceived by superiors with malicious intent" - Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke, Literary Advisor to the Queen

If the Pen

If the pen is mightier than the sword
Why did the one given the greatest gift by the Lord
Shake a spear?*


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* Editor's Note

Clearly Scylla here intends the implied "ghost rhyme":

Isn't that queer?
. . .

Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke
Literary Advisor to the Queen

Ode to the Latinates

Mica mica
Parva stella
Custodes cognoscent
Sis tam bella*


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* Editor and Literary Advisor to the Queen Enid Evenson Haddow De Burke:

For you non-Latinates out there, here is the English translation -

Twinkle twinkle
Little star
The happy satellite
Knows where you are ...

On Shakespeare

Literary debate on Shakespeare's sexuality
Has endured centuries and may still more
But I know a Queen once received him
With "Henry - The Avon Lady's at the door!"