Even just reading
one page from Out of Africa,
a memoir by the Danish author Isak Dinesen,
whose birth name
Karen Blixen found eyelids
unyielding to stay alert
heavily sedated and felt like lead
and sentencing this
verbose character to a state
of drowsiness periodas experienced
similarly to those prone to narcolepsy
and even after quaffing
a cup steeped
with two Lipton black tea bags
still no can do, these occipital orbs
refused to remain eyes wide shut,
thus I relented and surrendered
my body electric as if drugged
with a strong sedative
in the blink of an eye
that found me conked out
for the better part of a lifetime
(in reality only a score of years)
similar to when Rip Van Winkle
drank a magical liquor—
described as tasting like hollands
(a type of juniper-flavored
gin or schnapps)—
provided by the strange dwarfs
in the Catskill Mountains
within the same general area
Washington Irving\'s 1820 story,
id est The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
set in a Dutch settlement
near Tarrytown, New York
also purportedly took place.
Try as I might to remain awake
(think fighting a losing battle)
palpebrae remained slammed shut
thus yours truly muttered
to hell with attempt
to set figurative and literal
sight and visually slake
and drink in the writings of another
expanding my learning curve
appeasing creative juices thus
rather than abandon impossible mission
to summon forth my own words
to nudge nudge wink wink
(you know what I mean) to reuptake
and pardon me while I cite verbatim
The Monty Python sketch
featuring \"wink wink\"
titled \"Nudge Nudge.\"
In this comedic scene, a persistent man,
played by Eric Idle,
engages a reserved squire,
portrayed by Terry Jones, at a pub.
The sketch revolves
around the man\'s incessant
nudging and winking,
implying a series
of unspoken questions
and innuendos that leave
the squire increasingly uncomfortable.
The humor lies
in the exaggerated implications
and the awkwardness of the situation,
showcasing Monty Python\'s
signature style of absurdity
and social commentary.
This sketch counts
as one of the more popular ones
from the series and has appeared
in various live performances and films,
including \"And Now
for Something Completely Different.\"
Especially when cocooned
within a comfortable blanket
while white noise
issued from the fan
the whir of the motor
quickly lulled me to sleep,
whence me head
rocked than rolled
around on my neck
prior to noggin acquiescing to gravity
that quickly lolled back
as if pulled courtesy
an invisible string
analogous to being
controlled by an emboldened puppeteer,
who mad as a red bull in a China shop
aggressively haphazardly pulls strings,
especially when the largest
standard American Wire Gauge
(AWG) size is 0000 (4/0 or \"four-aught\"),
which sports a diameter of
0.46 inches (11.68 mm).
For applications requiring more capacity,
wire sizes exceeding 4/0
measured in thousand circular mils
(kcmil or MCM), with sizes
commonly reaching 1000–
1500 kcmil or higher,
which latter mentioned wires
haphazardly attached to my body
and unfortunate (vidēre licet
an inconvenient truth to boot)
quickly got tangled,
which gave the sensation
of earthling NOT being in the balance,
that\'s when a short, nasty
and brutish foo fighting beastie boy
elbowed his way aggressively taking over
without any strings attached
as self anointed master of puppets
or at least this one dummy
ruthlessly undergoing uber twittering,
whatsapp penning, spluttering, snapchatting
linkedin with redditing
the nearest someone
in close proximity,
(who happened to be yours truly)
thwarting off barrage of strong expletives
that delivered absolute zero
results to lessen flack,
subsequently me suffered
contusions about the head
as the unfortunate fall guy
also known as self hashtagged
Pastor Of Muppets,
(especially “father figure” for Miss Piggy)
aghast as trumpeting don
boastly instagrammed, jackknifed, and kickstarted,
the scatter shot Republican candidates
regaling how he of the GOP
(stands for Grand Old Party,
which widely used nickname
for the Republican Party,
one of the two major
political parties in the United States)
nabbed president elect post,
analogous to taking candy from a kid,
or more apropos apprenticed on television
with trademark windblown hirsute doo
throughout spiel being a teetotaler,
nevertheless his self-effacing winsomeness
shook me all night long
thunderstruck by witch\'s spell
as if yours truly possessed
with delirium tremens,
though I too shun drink much more
able, eager, ready and willing
skedaddling bruising buster brawn
to wring mine neck, long haired
pencil necked geek corporeal being,
I bristled with dismay whereat
\"Raise the hackles\"
insync with shivers down thy spine
on the back of my head
peach fuzz stood up
for those about to rock
Auld dee time with olde Lang Syne
turned upside down,
and in no holiday spirit
for approaching Christmas
and end of the world as we know it
in rearview mirror closed the distance
from now until inauguration indemnified
the basket of deplorables,
whose eggs esse
hints shell shock
mark kid lee petered out
how fate rigged and rolled
the 2016 election GOP clinched the election
aye too confess at being appalled
at the prospect outsize bully nabbed
the most sought after
White House seat - ugh guess
thine psyche fearful -
that arrogant, indecent,
pompous, and vivacious
to break ranks and restore Hess
shun Hitlerian militaristic
modus operandi crowning himself
King Kong of Amerika - applauded
by a hundred Klansmen less
or more, with spirit
of a jolly roger intent
on shredding sacred documents,
and creating a mess
ages will be required
to restore righteous, officious,
and gracious lock cud ness
steeped in the mythologized
legacy of forefathers and mothers,
which democratic rubric
Paine stay king lee
easel lee trampled oh press
sieve lee in sync
with missteps made
during on the job training,
whereby he made all the rules
at national mike crow ex pence
augments, foments, portents ominously
ramping up surge of test
toss tear roan,
wherefore if happenstance
finds Czech mated xpress
train tearing down the tracts,
we the people
of the United States might vouchsafe
for a veep ping
doggone Petsmart prodigy
to take over – YES?