The Eye's Had It

Their visions appear in my head
Some yellowed, or bloodshot with red
My windows to souls
are deep empty holes
These eyeballs are portals of dread



Images (top to bottom): René Magritte, Le Faux Miroir; Salvador Dalí
and Hitchcock, Spellbound; Dali and Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou.
Well, that cuts it for Surrealism Week at Limerwrecks.

Warpathic

The Visage Of War, Salvador Dalí, 1940

A horror beyond peaceful ken
a war is a monster of men
It maims and it kills
and life's blood it spills
Forget and it rises again

I Love You, Man Ray

Now here is an odd artist pair
Intensely, the the two of them stare
These jokers both pose
at modern art shows
possessing surreal savoir faire


Salvador Dali and Man Ray

Hot Doggerel

A hearse carried Oscar G. Mayer
encased in eternal attire
With angels at wheel
the Wiener Mobile
played jingles by heavenly choir


AP

Oscar G. Mayer, credited with taking his family's
small meats and cold cut business and helping turn
it into a major conglomerate, has died. He was 95.
Oscar Mayer was actually the third member of his
family to have the famous name. His namesake
grandfather started the company. CBS2

Stripe Dream

A series of parallel lines
like those from a fork's dragging tines
A dream sequence quest
for mem'ry repressed
through Freudian Dali designs




Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (i945) used Freudian
analysis and symbolic dream imagery like no film before.

Gale Storm, R.I.P.

A moniker used to perform

the stage name supreme was Gale Storm

Gale acted and sang
without Sturm und Drang
Her only name rival, Rip Torn

Norm Knott


Above: In My Little Margie, with Charles Farrell;
Below: With Dan Duryea in Underworld Story

Before starring as My Little Margie and in The Gale Storm Show on TV
in the 1950s, actress and singer Gale Storm appeared in many films,
including Foreign Agent (William Beaudine, 1942), Revenge of the Zombies
Steve Sekeley, 1943), Abandoned (Joseph H. Newman, 1948), Underworld
Story (Cy Endfield, 1950), Between Midnight and Dawn (Gordon Douglas,
1950) and Walk a Crooked Mile (Gordon Douglas, 1948), in which she was
the voice on a tape recorder.

Born "Josephine Cottle" in Texas, Storm won producer Jesse Lasky's "Gate-
way to Hollywood" contest in 1939, also winning her famous stage name.

Grilling Me Softly

When watches hang limp from a tree
the painting must be by Dali
"How can time advance
when crawling with ants?"
we ask, passing time by the sea



Sal threw himself into his work
with paintings, surreal, went berserk
In self-portrait, soft
by crutch, held aloft
a crisp strip of bacon does lurk