William John Wainwright, English
Gus Was What They Call “Toi-Literate,” Meaning He Could Only Read If He Pretended To Be On the John, 1888
Watercolor on paper
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/// His wife asked him to read her The Letter,
and he’s trying hard not to upset her,
but he can’t really see:
Letter “U”? Letter “V”?
He wished that in school he’d done better.
> or <
/// Alfred Nobel was one of those guys
the obit writers loved to despise
‘cause he sired dynamite,
so, his image he’d fight
by endowing the Nobel Peace Prize.
> or <
/// The instructions he struggles to scan,
must be read, for he’s not one who can
figure things out untaught.
Now he’s sorry he bought
this high-tech toilet made in Japan.
/// Doc Brown knows, since he’s bountif’ly brained,
that plutonium can’t be obtained.
But he is a good moocher.
To get Back to the Future,
an alternate fuel must be gained.
/// With his trusty time-trav’ling DeLorean,
he is now in the Age called Victorian.
(Eighty-eight over here
isn’t speed, but the year.)
So he studies a proof Pythagorean.