(and other controversial elastica)
.
we’re in the business
…………(busy-ness)
of a cappella
cookbooks, paper
planes, raw and difficult
reggae math
(and gee, ain’t this scholar
………..-ship a trip?)
our initial application was
rejected, but fear not, we’re ten
-acious cusses, visual artist
musses of drum
machine, time
magazine nursery-rhyme
…………………..swing.
you may have seen us in South
London, Sri Lanka-long and
………lavish:
new-rave girls in tattered hand
……………………-me-downs.
me? I got with Ben
then Boyz
………2 Men. we’ve had
little contact since
……………….then.
this Britpop gonna keep
on pushin’, perfection ex
-perimented into systematic gen
-erational
-erosity
-ocide. we’re blunder-
blendered and we don’t care
………….where we’re landing.
number 11:
(middle finger to the camera)
count us in
-dependent peace mediators
………….not
…..with
……………….standing.
..
A bit of funky fun wordplay fare inspired by a list from my Shawna.
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Okay, try as I might, I can’t get past “we’re in the business” meaning “we’re prostitutes.” 🙂 So everything else is in coded finger quotes. LOL. … of cookbooks. … of reggae math.
Seriously cracking up over here. 🙂 Like, these weirdnesses have to do with the different Johns and their fetishes.
“me? I got with Ben
then Boyz
………2 Men” … I LOVE THIS! And it’s actually not far from the truth.
“we’re blunder-
blendered and we don’t care
………….where we’re landing ” … Amen.
I really hope the pro-s-tit-u-te reading doesn’t o-ffend you. But every word of this fits that reading.
“count us in
-dependent peace mediators
………….not
…..with
……………….standing.”
Not with standing, indeed! Hee hee. What better way to find peace, really?
Oh, heavens. You CRACK ME UP. 😉
“a cappella cookbooks” oh, my, I would be lost. I need, well, I need them to be not a cappella! This is so fun. I absolutely love the title! I love the Boys to Men stanza, though I know I’ve not spelled that correctly (but have revealed myself to be a nerd)! So much fun!
God, I love your words. Just love snapping my fingers and tipping my head to them.
Oh I love what you did with gen
This is ha.larious.
I seriously need to check out raegae math as my students would surely dig it.
You whipped this word list a bit better than I did. I just emailed mine to our friend. Maybe I will post it this weekend
cunt-row verse shall e-last icka (insert “sicker,” “ticker,” ?sticker” … anything you like, really)
So much fun to read.