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Mélange for the Unknown George
“George is a lion. . . .
There is no pope.”
—Gertrude Stein.
GEORGE is a lion;
There is no pope;
Death is the scion
Of the house of Hope.
George is a gazelle;
There is no Freud;
Charles Parnell
Looked like Ernest Boyd.
George is a llama;
There is no stork;
Papa loves Mama
Like Jews love pork.
There’s no Frances Newman—
In a pig’s right eye!
Death is as human
As a mandrake’s cry.
George is a racoon; he
Insists there is art.
Little Annie Rooney
Is my sweetheart.
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