Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 09, 2021

Elementary school students NOT studying T.S. Eliot? WHAT is the world coming to?

Caulfield can mess with the accelerator pedal, but Mrs. Olsen owns the steering wheel.

Oh the humanity!

The reason old people roll the bottom of their pants is because many older people lose height with age, my mother was 5 Foot 1 and strunk to 4 foot 10.

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out!

What’s really sad is they are not giving room to the analysis of Vogon Poetry!!

I roll the bottom of my jeans because I think it looks cool! Also, I love Shel Silverstein!

curious, is it the word “rolled” that painfully forces the meter?

Wish we’d studied Shell Silverstein when I was in school. Of course, Shel almost certainly hadn’t started writing when I was in school so that would have presented a bit of a problem.

That’s wonderfully devious of you, Caulfield. More Shel Silverstein the better!

I’d much rather hear Shel Silverstein’s work sung than T.S. Eliot’s.

I never met Shel, but we had a mutual friend; the things he told me Shel said/sang in person were even funnier (and much raunchier) than what he published and recorded.

Do I dare . . . to ask how I can triple-like this? Jef Mallett, this is fantastic!!

Its senses.

Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot were fighting in the captain’s tower…

Shel’s okay, but not The Giving Tree. TERRIBLE story with a TERRIBLE lesson.

Well, my daddy left home when I was three and he didn’t leave much for Ma an’ me but this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze…..

I was supposed to read something my T.S. Eliot but I got stoned and I missed it.

Shel Silverstein is good, but I like Jack Prelutsky better. A little more humor, maybe, and a little less satirical bite. Fun stuff!

May I submit…? The meter slows in that couplet to show old age slowing us down.

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out

I cannot go to school today, said little Peggy Ann McKay. Yeah! I can hear Caulfield saying that. My kids were subjected to that poem every time that they said that they were sick on a school day!