Union Chants of the 17th Century
What's outrageous?
Death's dark wages!
What's disgusting?
Unchaste lusting!
What's outrageous?
Death's dark wages!
What's disgusting?
Unchaste lusting!
***
One! Two! Three! Four!
What are we all fighting for?
Five! Six! Seven! Eight!
Satan's power to subjugate!
***
Hey hey! Ho ho!
Lewd wassailing's got to go!
Hey hey! Ho ho!
Lewd wassailing's got to go!
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Thursday, May 14, 2020
The new adventures of Abbott and Costello in Quarantine Land
SCENE: A small city apartment. BUD ABBOTT is busy standing on a small step ladder hanging a row of hand-folded Japanese lanterns across the room when LOU COSTELLO bursts in through the door.
COSTELLO: (Shouting) Hey, Abbott!
ABBOTT: (Does a sudden startle, almost causing the whole row of paper lanterns to collapse) Do you gotta make me jump like that, Lou? It's taken me ages to make this house look nice, and you bust in here and the whole place is gonna collapse!
COSTELLO: I'm sorry, Bud, I'm sorry.... it's just chaos out there! Absolute chaos!
ABBOTT: What, people are breaching the quarantine conditions already? Don't they know they could catch this new flu?
COSTELLO: No! Worse! Nobody out there at all! I could hardly find my way home! I.... I don't think I'm ready to go on my own to the candy store, Bud! I get lost without my mama!
ABBOTT: All right, all right, that's fine, just help me up with these, would you?
COSTELLO: Hey, sure.... (climbs up step ladder beside ABBOTT and begins helping him hang the lanterns up) Say.... why do we got to hang these things up, anyway?
ABBOTT: Why? Why, we're celebrating, Lou!
COSTELLO: Cele.... celery.... celerious.... cerebellum.... Sybil Shep..... what?
ABBOTT: Celebrate, have a party, you know?
COSTELLO: Oh, a party! Why?
ABBOTT: My COVID test results came back, Lou! I'm negative.
COSTELLO: WHAT? Are you positive?
ABBOTT: No, I'm negative.
COSTELLO: You're absolutely positive about that?
ABBOTT: Yeah yeah, I'm absolutely positive that I'm negative!
COSTELLO: What? You're positive or you're negative?
ABBOTT: I'm negative!
COSTELLO: Yeah yeah Bud, you're always very negative.
ABBOTT: Say, now you're getting it!
COSTELLO: Getting it? I'm not getting it! No way am I getting it! No sirree Bob, you stay away from me if you've got it!
ABBOTT: Well, I don't! I'm negative!
COSTELLO: Yeah yeah, that's what I always tells ya, you're so negative, don't do this Lou, don't do that, you don't let me do anything!
ABBOTT: What, are you some kind of.... (hits COSTELLO round the head).... I'm negative. For COVID.
COSTELLO: I KNOW you're negative, Bud, but you gotta tell me, or I won't understand.... does ya got it or does ya not got it?
ABBOTT: I DON'T GOT IT, LOU!
COSTELLO: All right, all right, no need to shout in my face! (They continue hanging up the lanterns) Say, ah, Bud, I forgot to tell you, while I was out I went to see the doctor too. He gave me this letter. (Takes out of his pocket) Your test results for Corona have returned, and we regret to inform you that you have tested positive. (Beams) See? Isn't that right? I always told you I was a positive person!
ABBOTT: (Jumps, falls of ladder) (Looks at COSTELLO aghast)
COSTELLO: Say, why are you looking at me like that, Bud?
ABBOTT: Oh, that's just the absolute limit! Now you've got it, I've definitely got it too!
COSTELLO: That's it, Bud, that's the way to be positive!
ABBOTT: Come here! (Pulls COSTELLO off ladder, who grabs line of paper lanterns to help him stay up, somehow manages to pull down the ceiling with the lanterns)
COSTELLO: (Wailing, as ABBOTT beats him about the head, and the ceiling continues to fall about them) What did I do, Bud, what did I do!
COSTELLO: (Shouting) Hey, Abbott!
ABBOTT: (Does a sudden startle, almost causing the whole row of paper lanterns to collapse) Do you gotta make me jump like that, Lou? It's taken me ages to make this house look nice, and you bust in here and the whole place is gonna collapse!
COSTELLO: I'm sorry, Bud, I'm sorry.... it's just chaos out there! Absolute chaos!
ABBOTT: What, people are breaching the quarantine conditions already? Don't they know they could catch this new flu?
COSTELLO: No! Worse! Nobody out there at all! I could hardly find my way home! I.... I don't think I'm ready to go on my own to the candy store, Bud! I get lost without my mama!
ABBOTT: All right, all right, that's fine, just help me up with these, would you?
COSTELLO: Hey, sure.... (climbs up step ladder beside ABBOTT and begins helping him hang the lanterns up) Say.... why do we got to hang these things up, anyway?
ABBOTT: Why? Why, we're celebrating, Lou!
COSTELLO: Cele.... celery.... celerious.... cerebellum.... Sybil Shep..... what?
ABBOTT: Celebrate, have a party, you know?
COSTELLO: Oh, a party! Why?
ABBOTT: My COVID test results came back, Lou! I'm negative.
COSTELLO: WHAT? Are you positive?
ABBOTT: No, I'm negative.
COSTELLO: You're absolutely positive about that?
ABBOTT: Yeah yeah, I'm absolutely positive that I'm negative!
COSTELLO: What? You're positive or you're negative?
ABBOTT: I'm negative!
COSTELLO: Yeah yeah Bud, you're always very negative.
ABBOTT: Say, now you're getting it!
COSTELLO: Getting it? I'm not getting it! No way am I getting it! No sirree Bob, you stay away from me if you've got it!
ABBOTT: Well, I don't! I'm negative!
COSTELLO: Yeah yeah, that's what I always tells ya, you're so negative, don't do this Lou, don't do that, you don't let me do anything!
ABBOTT: What, are you some kind of.... (hits COSTELLO round the head).... I'm negative. For COVID.
COSTELLO: I KNOW you're negative, Bud, but you gotta tell me, or I won't understand.... does ya got it or does ya not got it?
ABBOTT: I DON'T GOT IT, LOU!
COSTELLO: All right, all right, no need to shout in my face! (They continue hanging up the lanterns) Say, ah, Bud, I forgot to tell you, while I was out I went to see the doctor too. He gave me this letter. (Takes out of his pocket) Your test results for Corona have returned, and we regret to inform you that you have tested positive. (Beams) See? Isn't that right? I always told you I was a positive person!
ABBOTT: (Jumps, falls of ladder) (Looks at COSTELLO aghast)
COSTELLO: Say, why are you looking at me like that, Bud?
ABBOTT: Oh, that's just the absolute limit! Now you've got it, I've definitely got it too!
COSTELLO: That's it, Bud, that's the way to be positive!
ABBOTT: Come here! (Pulls COSTELLO off ladder, who grabs line of paper lanterns to help him stay up, somehow manages to pull down the ceiling with the lanterns)
COSTELLO: (Wailing, as ABBOTT beats him about the head, and the ceiling continues to fall about them) What did I do, Bud, what did I do!
END
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Mothers Day Poem 2020
O mummy O mummy
O thank you O mummy
For you just were the best when I burst from your chest and infested the rest through the eyeballs no less
O mummy -
O mummy O mummy
O thank you O mummy
Now the land is possessed unto your dark behest and will perform your request until the detestable Ul'Qhon manifests and ingests half the humans* before sending the rest to slave in the mines -
O mummy.
*With a light lemon zest.
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