Something All Mixed Up

Paul A. Harris

 

I. Doubling Definitions

Something's been so much with me,

so next to me, ending up just a thing,

so at the start, me in a muddle in the middle, finished off as a thing,

so stuck on to me, driving me to singular things.

Something something in the mirror, something something getting clearer:

Gee, at the end, then I get thin, then it's me--so?

So me, hands-on approach, American Addams, I end up Thing.

 

II. Anagrammatic Something: All Men Are Pigs

Hog, tis men:

noting hem,

got hem sin.

Men to sigh,

Monet sigh.

"Go shit, men"--

men go shit.

I'm sent hog--

him, e.g., snot,

nose might.

I'm ten hogs,

I'm hog nest,

I'm hogs, net.

G, I'm honest.

Gist: ho, men!

 

III. A.S. 2: Pigs Multiplying

Hog met sin

He got in ms.--

hog in stem,

met on sigh.

No, the gism!

She'n'me got--

G, I'm the son.

Get his nom--

no ms, eight,

eight noms.

Smith gone --

gheist nom.

She go mint,

get no hims.

 

IV. A. S. 3: Drinking and Singing

He, gin host,

mesh to gin.

Them SO gin

Them go sin.

Me, not sigh.

Moet's nigh.

Me, shot gin--

most gin, eh?

Sit?--hm, gone.

Ghost in me,

This, Monge?

Mein ghost--

Monge--shit!

Gosh, I'm ten;

me, ton sigh;

"Sing, eh Tom?"

Me, hot sing,

in them song,

Minthe song.

Sting, home?

Tesh?!--me, I'm gon'!

Sh-t, I'm gon'!

 

V. A.S. 4: A Vietnamese Sights Russian Planes in Fog

Some night,

Ng sit home,

smog in the

homing set.

Smog ten, hi.

Sight omen--

"No, the migs

in the smog--"

"Smog it, hen!"

"Not migs, eh?"

"Go mist, hen!"

O Mein Goths--

home sting.

So, enth mig?

O, sign them!

He omits Ng

on the migs.

Me tho, sign;

O, them sign

me, hot sign.

Ho, met sign!

Ng, he moist.

Hit some, Ng--

one's might.

So hit me, Ng.

This gnome

hits gnome.

O, Ng hits me!

Got me, shin,

might nose.

I then smog.

 

 

VI. A.S. 5: Thieving Rocks

Hoist'n gem:

hit on gems.

"Gosh, 'n item!"

Hot gem, sin;

hm, tis gone.

Gem in host--

shot in gem.

"Gem?--no shit!"

"Shit--no gem?"

Not gemish--

sho', tin gem.

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