the day C oun t Muld ivo ( The Not Quite Right ) sent his
ca ca cabinet
ex tra ord in airrre on a little trip to Schloss Ambras
T he Palatial Pad of Ferdinand of Tyrol ,
Charles V' s brother and Rudolph's uncle
I can hear the chatt chat chatter of their prognostic lower bites as I type
as if it were only yesterday but it was in fact 1572
The Holy Roman Emperors were always such a laugh
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| The Travelling Cabinet |
Just I M agine the sounds the cabinet made
on such a long and arduous jour ney
The creak and clattle of skeletal L e gs
T H e W hir and Tick ToCk Tic kle of CloCk Work
Orchestrated by my g OOd friends the Clockwork Moths,
the Prey ing Man tis and the Little Monkey fellow who does
what he doosssses best
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| The Clockwork Machinations |
the Grumpy grump Grunts of the nippleless Echidna , daughter of Tartarus and Gaia, keeper of the Crystal Ball of Facial Indiscretion
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| Echidna By the Sea |
and the No Nonsense
chit chat Chunter of the Arma Dillo
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| Distinctly Armadillo |
The Fruit Bat skeleton l oo ks on and will reveal her secrets s oon enough
Suffice it to say it involves the Clockwork moths and a jar of strawberry jam
Never Not Almost but never to forget
Dapper Sylvester the dancing Starfish and his troupe
of Moa Bone Ball erinas
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| Sylvester Starfish and the Moa Bones |
Ed itors Note to the Assistant Editor :
Any illusions to allusions is strict ly
Co inci dental
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