Rinkydinks: Volume 2
...Q: Who is the current Chief of Staff?
A: The resident President.
Q: What is an old, lame, deaf, half-blind Sherlock Holmes?
A: A defective detective.
Q: Who is the magician who ate all the pa...
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Categories:
dreyfus, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Absinthe of Malice
...La Fée Verte, Mistress of Wormwood,
High Consort of la Belle Époque,
Shimmering with joie de vivre.
She’s holding court with bohemian charm,
All haute couture with feathers and furs,
Promising ...
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Categories:
dreyfus, addiction, allegory,
Form: Burlesque
Were They Both Nuts
..."Every day will be better and better, Comrades!"
--thus Nikita Krushchev to Soviet citizenry, nightly on TV
before suddenly disappearing from public view in 1971
"Every day in every way I...
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Categories:
dreyfus, crazy, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Skies From a Little Girl's Eyes
...She wades in until the water reaches her waist,
looks out and continues into the endless sea.
Her imagined long gown floats behind her.
Her little girl shoulder blades
become hidden beneath...
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Categories:
dreyfus, child, french, nature, princess,
Form: Free verse
Madame Caillaux, Part 6 of 7
...(Henriette hired Fernand Labori, the superstar
defence lawyer who had recently acted for
Dreyfus. Old and cynical, he advises her to
play on her sexy image.)
6. Fernand Labori
I've long s...
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Categories:
dreyfus, history,
Form: Rhyme