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Friday, September 24, 2021

Rodney Phillips

 Alphabet Follies


Ague, Agincourt belies the ascenscionary angle our

Bobcat, polar bear singing, Blue booby tries poblano

Feline compass of, a cookoo cookout, ay Caramba!
or
“Pigtusk, Catclaw, Cramper, and Crazyred”

Dread elevator, disputed team leader. Doo Wop singer.

Elate and exasperate, For sale Especially Especially

Fine Feathers, tattered flag aux.

Boats on bottoms, funiculars, burning Guest

Hat and House, Hierarchy Harp on Hettie

Incinerator, Iron, power beam, pillar, ixion, fire in the hold!

Jasper as in Wyoming, crook upside down, fishhook slide, Joop!

Charlemagne, Ethelred, William and Mary and their kind

Lisp, light angle, right angle, Lope Oleander 

Two mountains, two houses, two ravens flying
all flying together, as in a crown

Nether, no barring the way, door, not ever, nix, nine ninc nah

Opal osculate in oh perfection oracular oval

Green and globe, flag and tongue, groove Piss-ant Piquant pies.

Some quinine, decorative ribbons for Queer quest

The Robot walking on decisively determinate, rampant pants

So Sweet curve, so swash buckle, hush whisper Sequoias

Tea Iron, truculent a telephone pole triumphant

Universe expanding in a cup

Fluvial alluvial volcanic victory after all, Vincegetorix!

The mountains flying upside down again, the double sink empty

A Ray, gun, ecstasy zipper

A Yellow yarrow, tail lost in space, yak yak yak

A Zebra playing a zinc zylophone of course, or Zorro.


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