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Sunday, May 25, 2014

The Paulus & The CarPeos

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The time has come...

The Paulus said to speak 
of just one thing

Not shoes, nor ships
nor sealing wax

But how my  flower
took wing.


It all began
three fortnight ago

When I was just
an embryo:

An amaryllis embryo,
new to planet  Earth

In a plastic bucket
full of dirt & dearth

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The sun was shining colorlessly
casting all in black & white

Mr. CarPeo was on the deck
reading something he did write

⬅That you can see
but what you can not

Was when Mrs. C handed him
something  jellied and hot


All she said–
as luck would have it

Just stuff it inside
that plastic bucket

Her words were firm
her words were bold

Thus, he just did
as he was told

All of the above
is truly to be believed:

That is how & when
my flower was conceived.


Three fortnight ago was April 13–
that you may have surmised

That was when this amaryllis
was magically fertilized

By something stuffed
into  a plastic flowering pot

It was something jellied
it was something hot

The flower is Paulus the Amaryllis
with one last thing to say

Tomorrow...to one and all...
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY






  














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Footnote
THE PAULRUS & THE CARPEOS is the copyrighted property
of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic.

The first verse of the poem is a corruption of Lewis Carroll's
cautionary tale, The Walrus & the Carpenter.  
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13 comments:

  1. Are you reading something you wrote?
    Or my mind

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  2. Mr. Carpeo clams up
    And claims he knows not
    Not to see how the bee
    And bird paulinates
    The bulb in waiting

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    1. Aint it a shame that
      Clam Up and Claim,
      written by Ray Peterssen,
      is not a famous song?

      As for what
      "Mr. CarPeo...knows not."
      That subject is too hot
      to handle

      And requires infinite space
      to define in its place.

      But now he must paulinate.


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  3. He finished watering
    The almond's milk
    And read it's instructions
    On using almond flour
    To propagate red flower

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  4. I had written something on the fancy label of the almond milk...

    the word .....W A T E R...

    it had become my ice water container...

    but i much prefer Mrs. Anon CarPeo's explanation...

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  5. Mr Wonderland (Carpeo) did see
    The note that said: Drink Me

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  6. And drink it, I did...
    The more water, the merrier

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  7. You are not a devoté of Perrier

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    Replies
    1. I prefer distilled tap water because...
      I still wanna be a tap dancer

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  8. Dance for me, Pauly

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  9. Any time...anywhere...name the floor and I will terpsichore

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