The Arts

Here Are All The Baby Dragon Cartoons From Day One

Elaine Meinel Supkis

From day one, I called all the diplomatic moves correctly in the North Korean nuclear bomb matter. One day, I decided to show North Korea as an unruly baby dragon. This creature has quickly gotten under everyone's skin and has twisted Bush's panties in to a square knot. And baby dragon just won the diplomatic battle, hands down.

The Chinese allowed Bush his pitiful propaganda moment with passage of a toothless, worthless UN sanction that simply kept up the present status quo. Only this gave China lots and lots of status and America lies prostrate in the dust. This diplomatic disaster is only one of many and the propaganda seems to please our rulers who are truly monumentally stupid.

Everyone agrees Kim is insane. So what are we? Brain dead?

As baby dragon likes to say, 'Me want to go boom!'

Doggerel Wedding Poem

Elaine Meinel Supkis

My daughter is getting married this weekend. Both mothers are going to read poems at the ceremony. Mrs. Tang is going to read a Chinese poem and I took up my pen and wrote my own poem which will be in English.

I am no poet but have a nack for doggerel verse. I used to entertain my children, making up instant doggerel verses on the subway or in the car. We would take various songs and use different words that still rhyme and change everything around. I am sure many of the readers here have done the same.

Doggerel verse has always had a popular life in our culture. Most popular songs use this technique. It is simple, lilting and fun to do. I heard only the first four lines in my head for a week and couldn't go further so to trigger the impulse, I went to bed with a book of old English songs where are all 'doggerel' and read a few dozen of them. Within an hour of falling asleep, the entire poem popped into my addled brain and I wrote it in about 10 minutes on my computer at 1am.

Correcting and fine tuning the words so they flowed a bit better took another half an hour.

&hearts 'A Modern Marriage' &hearts

&hearts We've not lost a daughter
But gained us a son,
In joining her laughter
His heart has been won.

&hearts It started with emails
And pictures online.
Despite all the trevails
It turned out just fine.

&hearts Thank goodness for cell phones
And fast Amtrak trains.
With some sighs and some groans
Their love made quick gains.

&hearts Today, they get married,
A new family now.
No longer all harried
Through wedding's love vow.

&hearts A new home shall now rise
Wherever they choose.
Nor should it surprise
If it needs work crews.

&hearts Good luck with your buying
Some really nice home,
And now time is flying...
Thus ends this mom's poem.