88 Word Palindrome

on Aug 17 in Uncategorized by

Along with lipograms, rhymed poems and Elizabethan verse, Bob Gallagher enjoyed the nice tight laces of a good palindrome, which is basically a phrase or poem that is the same backwards and it is forwards (Madam I’m Adam).

For a wonderful essay by Bob Gallagher entitled Palindromes and the Unconscious, including an explication of the one he was proudest of, click here.

Here’s his crowning achievement, the 88 word puzzle, in which he declares (accurately) that he’s smart as pins!:

88

GNOSTIC: A TAG
OF DIM NOON MID FOG,
A TACIT SONG
Emma dire vomits gas,
eh, bard? (Parsnips?)
A tram smites no puma
or Reed draws Eva
his turret.
Sis’s dewlaps bob:
Wow! — wobble (pah!
Cmon!) As Time wept,
a god(?), a dog at pew (?),
emits an OM
Chapel B: BOW WOW!
Bob’s pal weds sister,
ruts. I have sward
deer roam upon; set,
I’m smart as pins

Rap:
Drab he sags, Tim
over Ida M
Me?…GNOSTIC,
A TAG OF DIM NOON
MID FOG, A TACIT SONG–dbbaa5b0a83a55d72a4234ba79dfd6e8–>

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