The record turns <br>
Music spits out tomorrow's blood <br>
We are higher than ourselves <br>
Spinning webs of the mind <br>
Growing moons like trifle <br>
Grows surprises of cake <br>
Drifting through the door <br>
Pop hands me his empty cup <br>
He's been gone for years <br>
Nothing to say but <br>
How's it going and not bad <br>
Outside the rain falls heavy <br>
The flowers bow<br.>
To their new god
lost<br>
wet<br>
the swirl<br>
of water <br>
the peckish ghoti<br>
whittled to ivory drifting<br>
in the abyss the dead city of leviathan
Walt Kelly, 1974, Pogo Re-runs, Some Reflections on Elections, Fireside Books and Simon and Schuster. Reprints of three Pogo books. These cover the 1952, 1956, and 1960 presidential elections. See below.
Walt Kelly, 1959, The Pogo Sunday Brunch, Simon and Schuster. This book certainly has the most delicious cover of any Pogo book. The contents are as full of confusion as any book could be. Our story begins with confusion about whose house is whose, than about who is married to whom, and who has killed whom, and goes on from there. Rumors fly, hop, wriggle, and squirm in all directions. The usual nonsense verse interlude follows this section and precedes a warning about the dangers of military testing. And laundry. This is followed by chirping lessons, and then a memorable incident with some pies. Next, a duel to the death ends inconclusively, there are dog lessons and more nonsense verse, followed by the tale of Cinderola and the Fore-bears. Pogo, Albert, and Churchy star in this heartwarming tale of true love, with Howland Owl as the punkin genie. Or, a mouse and a bug star in this heartwarming tale of employment under false pretenses.
