A Christmas Ode

Fisher-Price is the king of toys
What is the meaning of all this noise?

My evil stepmother told me to not touch
The Christmas tree
It might fall over
So of course I touched it
And of course ...

Fisher-Price ... king ...
Xmas marks the spot
Come out come out whoever you are!

All together now (with feeling):

Fisher-Price is the king of toys
Whatever
is the meaning
of all of
this noise?

Ode to Morrie

I'd LOVE to spend Tuesdays with Morrie!
(But, unfortunately, Tuesday's my hair-day on Alpha Centauri...)

Ode to Scientology

Oft-times
Off-lines
...

Ode to Baudelaire

Tho' picture be worth
A thousand words
The poet adorns the baudy angels
With artful nouns
The beauteous arse
With divined verbs ...

Scylla In WWWonderland Introduction

Book One
[Publisher's Note: This is a Working Edition]


Scylla In WWWonderland


An Epic Poem, Comprised of Cantos, Annotated,
Edited and Introduced by Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke,
Literary Advisor to the Queen


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Introduction

Certain Individuals are born with special talents, some so rare as to not appear on this dusky bauble upon which we silently perch more than once in a century. Herein is presented a new Master-Work from just such an Anointed One, an Authoress of already searing world-wide renown - Baroness Scylla vom und zu Karybdis.

I commend her heartfelt, and astonishing, wisdom and words to you all.

- Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke
Literary Advisor to the Queen

Scylla In WWWonderland Canto V

Book One



Canto V
The "Email" Canto



To: Director@cia.gov
Bav@vatlib.it
Charles@princeofwales.gov.uk
Gloria@vanderbilt.com
George@soros.org
From: Scylla
Date: (withheld)
Subject: The World

Hi!*



*EDITOR'S NOTE

Ascending to the stage of World-Importance is not something that comes naturally to most of us, be we of high or low station. But in the case of the amazing Scylla vom und zu Karybdis, it is evidently as instinctively natural as accepting the mother's teat when new-born.

And while, for most of us, the words "Hi World" are limited to a form of sophomoric self-mockery indulged in only (with the emphasis on ONLY) during the elementary courses in computer science with the first attempts to produce output at what the cyberneticists call a "terminal", we find here an altogether transmogrified potentiation of those same words in the glorious hands of a Master Artist.



END OF BOOK ONE
Scylla In WWWonderland

Ode to Gloria Vanderbilt

Out the window with the old!*
Time for a bold new view
Sic transit Vanderbilt mundi
I'm Scylla --

Who are you?


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* Scylla is here, rather rudely I fear, referring to Ms. Vanderbilt's eldest son committing suicide by jumping out of her bedroom window as she watched, helplessly ...

- Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke
Literary Advisor to the Queen