Poetics and Ruminations

Forged Lard

There are two things I will never forgive Gerald Ford for: pardoning the criminal Richard Nixon, and bequeathing to the nation the twin disasters of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. For the rest of it, I offer this

DIZAIN ACROSTIC ON THE CARETAKER PRESIDENT
Anagram: "Forged Lard."

G olly whiz, look at what we've got
E xecutively speaking, in
R esidence in the White House! Not
A coal to be found in his bin!
L et's hope he gets by with a grin,
D ishing out of his larder some

F orged lard now and then, his left thumb
O rificially a stopgap,
R ight thumb a-suck, leaving him dumb
D exter and sinister, the sap.

From Curses and Laments, copyright © 1978 by Richard Behm, Song Magazine, and reprinted in The Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court 1953-2004, Star Cloud Press, © 2004 by Lewis Turco. All rights reserved.

Psychoproboscularanalizationism

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Absolutely Logical

Lew. Tom, At Dave's party the other day the adage “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely,” was being discussed, and I said that the first assertion is already an absolute and nothing else is necessary. The issue was, “Do the modifiers add anything to the original assertion?” You replied that you thought they added "something." My request for a definition of "something" was to the point. You avoided giving an answer rhetorically by changing the subject.