052026

 

pins in<br>

the voodoo doll/s butt<br>

sleeping prone

Review of Equal Time for Pogo

Walt Kelly, 1968, Equal Time for Pogo, Simon & Schuster. This book unabashedly covers the presidential campaign for the 1968 election. It begins as congressman Fenster Moop crafts his disavowal speech. Campaigning for the presidency is interspersed with negative diet plans, cannon testing, and so on. Next, the ignoble peace prize, awarded by ignat's Noble. The candidates show up in various forums no. Some are wind up toys, including Richard Nixon and Robert Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson shows up as a Texas longhorn. The others would all be clearly recognizable, but in 1968 I wasn't paying attention to politics and I don't know who they all are. Johnson takes an eye test, and the three bats, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bemildred, become pollsters. Chicken Little plays the role of the well-known Southern Democrat from Alabama.

Pogo isn't running for president, but mole doesn't know that. He's trying to capture Pogo so he can control the country. He is spectacularly unsuccessful. Meanwhile, a rare June blizzard drives several folks indoors. A Pogo impersonator suffers a well-deserved fate, and, just in time, Christmas arrives.

051826

dizzy <br>

and I have to sit down <br>

the air on this world 

051726

the last vampire how to make do with rats

051626

hothouse world <br>

I sip another <br>

iced tea 

051526

doctor doctor <br>

give me the news<br>

write my will now!

Modern spec poets on spec poetry

https://sfpoetry.org/wp/2026/05/01/a-time-travellers-guide-to-speculative-poetry-part-four-contemporary/  This is a very interesting summary, almost a conversation, about the past, present, and future of the field. Full disclosure: I am one of the participants.