Snakes On The Brain

Snakes On The Brain

I'm afraid, my dear, I have snakes within my brain,
Bees in my ears, my dear, and monkeys in my eyes,
Against my better judgment that I should refrain,
But there's a bat, my dear, in the belfry that cries,
There's a blue turnip in the spider web, my dear,
The pigs have landed and Lucifer bought a coat,
Alice¹ is in the garden with Dinah², I fear,
For which, my dear, there seems to be no antidote.
   And yet there's no alarm for which there's no excuse,
   There's no travesty upon which I must report,
   For the sky here is a gorgeous shade of fulvous³,
   And here, my dear, my neighbors are never obtuse,
   The moments are simply filled with snappy retort,
   And ev'rything int'resting isn't frivolous.
  
  
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1.  The main character in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
2. Alice's cat in Alice in Wonderland.
3. A dull yellow-brown color.
  
  

Sloth: The Annotated Edition

Sloth

I'll make you an offer you can never refuse,
I'll remove the devoir¹ and desire to choose,
It's really quite simple to select the right door,
An offer that's certain to allure you for more.
The tocsin² is ringing; don't worry and don't fight,
For Pavlov³ was brilliant and Cannon⁴, too, had light,
But Milgram⁵ was special, and Janis⁶ would be brave⁷,
Just ponder the offer, and endorse⁸ it, my knave⁹.
   I'll appeal your senses, that moral rope you cling,
   But dawdle not, instead to contract¹⁰ you must spring,
   (I, also, can alleve¹¹ your burden of that thing.)
   No distress, no worries, no fever of your's grown,
   I'll protect you against the terror at home sown,
   So perpend¹² the offer, the favor yet not known.
  
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1. Duty.
2. Bell, alarm, object to be rung.
3. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian physiologist, 1904 Nobel Prize winner for his work
    on the physiology of digestion; made famous for discovering the condition reflex,and
    having a profound effect on the foundations of Psychology and Behavioral Science.
4. William Bradford Cannon, First to describe the fight or flight response.
5. Stanley Milgram, Yale Professor of Psychology noted for his research in the 1960's
    on a person's obedience to authority figures.
6. Irving Janis, Research Psychologist at Yale University from 1947 until 1985, noted
    for his research involving and describing the social psychology concept of
    Groupthink.
7. Archaic, Proud.
8. Doublespeak, Refers to both support and signing as in a letter or contract.
9. Archaic, Servant.
10. Doublespeak, Refers to both a legal agreement between parties and to acquire as
      in the catching of a contagion. (virus, bacteria, infection, etc.)
11. Relieve, alleviate.
12. Consider.


Invino Veritas
11/5/12
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