After becoming inspired by Kipling, this poet wrote a parody declaring “there is no law but teeth and claw to the nor nor east of nome.” A work by this poet of “shakespeare and i are often low browed” complains about a subway-rider who causes mass hysteria by eating a pickled onion stored in his eye socket. This poet’s first work introduces Freddy, a “punk poet” who eats at this poet’s work, and declares “i was once a vers libre bard.” This resident of (*) Shinbone Alley, frequently drawn by Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, writes poems about his friend who claims she is a reincarnation of Cleopatra. This poet never uses capital letters, because he operates a typewriter by jumping up and down on the keys. For 10 points, name this friend of the cat Mehitabel, a cockroach poet created by the newspaper columnist Don Marquis. ■END■
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| Rachel Ezrielev | Enjoying the Hole Experience | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 112 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 114 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 117 | 10 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 135 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Broken Socal Scene | 135 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 146 | 0 |
| Kevin Ye | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | It's not X, but... defenders | 146 | 0 |
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| Connor Mayers | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 146 | 0 |