#1669 - on the occasion of Bugs Bunny’s 80th birthday

 

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on the occasion of Bugs Bunny’s 80^th birthday

down a rabbit hole

parable for our times

 

I’ll never mix radish juice and carrot juice again

                               – Bugs

 

 

rabbit? duck?

whose season is it?

 

little lippie, senorita

he barbers the Elmer salad head

 

it’s ‘kill the wabbit’, with Valkyries

but the wabbit lives

 

leads us from wilderness

   to laughs

 

needs simple for ubiquity

 

wants boxed carrotwater

 

open Sarsaparilla, Saskatchewan

in Ali Baba’s cave, nor Pismo

wrong turn by Albuquerque

 

greed will not undo our flaneur

 

leads Martians up endless stairs to drop

 

arm wrestles with Yosemite

a mockery of guntote

 

a thwart for the unthinking

 

tangle of ears at times

 

the rabbit turned into a stick of dynamite

 

a frolic against mortal peril

turning the home inside out upside down

 

ever calm except in the case of

Cecil the Speed Demon turtle

 

if you can’t beat em

blast em

 

rabbit is a perfect victim

 

abracadabra and hocus pocus

it wasn’t the rabbit at all

 

no wonder I’m so sleepy

 

snaps baton in favour of a paw

to whom the whole orchestra bows

 

uncollars a tenor

turns him blue and purple, green

 

all by gesture

what’s up doc?

 

the concert hall collapses

 

and just while Marvin blocks his ears

 

some banjo notes to finish

 

this rabbit saves the world

 

up against raw anger

laughter always wins