Mercury Finger
Late luncheon blether,
blathering about one thing,
wrestling with another,
whether we’ll be together for longer,
whether an unworkable endeavour.
The tea rooms of Mr Speaker
favour the phalanges
of yea-sayer and yenta,
yawing their clothesline,
ready to take the bar for all it’s worth.
A waiter suffering a bad egg
is a worthy ruin of any meal;
why students declaim tutors,
and mash notes, unconcertinaed,
become concerned with public vapours.
Pre-rehearsed pink punctilio,
or bayonets over benapkined laps
where diplomats
make doormats
cock hats.
Logic
g + s = u
(j ÷ b) ≪ (e ÷ l)
s + p ≠ w
m × r = a
h ∝ c ∝ d
h! + n! ~t
g = gibbon
s = smugness
u = snug as a gun - Seamus Heaney
j = Napoleon Bonaparte's letters to Josephine Beauharnais
b = bipolar disorder
e = beanpole as a term of endearment
l = loyalties
s = Robert Walpole, in particular his role in protecting the Hanoverian succession
w = whirlpool
p = ploughmen
m = give a girl the right pair of shoes and she'll conquer the world - Marilyn Monroe
r = Romans, and Romans 3:23
a = romance
h = chancellor
c = the Chance card in the game of Monopoly
d = car chase
h = hitchhikers
n = coffee
t = Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in particular his Variations on a Rococo Theme
Mount of Apollo
How tall was Tintoretto?
How heavy the infant Christ?
You can count the days
(They have only seven names)
between the beginning, the notable, and the end.
Late luncheon blether,
blathering about one thing,
wrestling with another,
whether we’ll be together for longer,
whether an unworkable endeavour.
The tea rooms of Mr Speaker
favour the phalanges
of yea-sayer and yenta,
yawing their clothesline,
ready to take the bar for all it’s worth.
A waiter suffering a bad egg
is a worthy ruin of any meal;
why students declaim tutors,
and mash notes, unconcertinaed,
become concerned with public vapours.
Pre-rehearsed pink punctilio,
or bayonets over benapkined laps
where diplomats
make doormats
cock hats.
Logic
g + s = u
(j ÷ b) ≪ (e ÷ l)
s + p ≠ w
m × r = a
h ∝ c ∝ d
h! + n! ~t
g = gibbon
s = smugness
u = snug as a gun - Seamus Heaney
j = Napoleon Bonaparte's letters to Josephine Beauharnais
b = bipolar disorder
e = beanpole as a term of endearment
l = loyalties
s = Robert Walpole, in particular his role in protecting the Hanoverian succession
w = whirlpool
p = ploughmen
m = give a girl the right pair of shoes and she'll conquer the world - Marilyn Monroe
r = Romans, and Romans 3:23
a = romance
h = chancellor
c = the Chance card in the game of Monopoly
d = car chase
h = hitchhikers
n = coffee
t = Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in particular his Variations on a Rococo Theme
Mount of Apollo
How tall was Tintoretto?
How heavy the infant Christ?
You can count the days
(They have only seven names)
between the beginning, the notable, and the end.