In Boston’s fair city, where girls are so pretty I first heard the poems of sweet Molly Malone. She wheeled a wheel-barrow, through streets broad and narrow Crying: trochees and spondees, a-live, a-li… more →
Gerbil News Networkwrote 12 hours ago: Spoken: ooh, boy you’re looking good C’mere and let me spank that. What do you mean you … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Welcome back to “Doggerel,” where I discuss words and phrases that are misused, abused, … more →
wrote 1 day ago: In Boston’s fair city, where girls are so pretty I first heard the poems of sweet Molly Malone. She … more →
wrote 2 days ago: (With apologies to Joe and Rose Lee Maphis even though they don’t need ‘em ‘cause they’re already de … more →
wrote 4 days ago: I grew up with a cat whose name was Big Kitty, the ruler with terror of our provincial city. Part … more →
wrote 4 days ago: I love croutons, I really really do. I like them in soup, and I like them in stew. I like it when th … more →
wrote 6 days ago: If I invent a character in prose, His presence does not prove that I exist. If anything, that’s not … more →
wrote 1 week ago: If I had to choose between a face full of cuteness and what Veblen called the physiognomy of … more →
wrote 1 week ago: This post may require some appeasement on my part. I do, however, excuse this peas piece by saying t … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: As my father did I cut my nails and likely will ‘til all else fails as it did for him not long ago a … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: BECKET, Mass. This sleepy western Massachusetts town is home to St. Judith College, the only instit … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Portrait by Edward Lear, poet and artist I Made a Bu-Bo (and other nonsensical blather) Snickering u … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: (a poem whose title alone is longer than a haiku) On Boston Common, one fine Sabbath A … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: A little piece written for a young child, and enjoyed at the time. Literature it’s not, but wh … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: This is an ode to the letter Y. An oft maligned letter, I don’t know why. Y is clever, Y is sp … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: When Gracie meets up with another dog, she goes right to butt-sniffing. Serious sniffing. This force … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Over the weekend, I experimented with the “clustering” technique, with mixed success. It … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Today, I am moved to write a ballad about the sorry state of “Caesar” salads. If you order one of th … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: The Animal Reproduction Institute of Uruguay has produced a genetically altered lamb that … more →