Pinocchio - Norman B - Deviations from the Norm

"Once upon a time there was ... 'A king!' my little readers will say right away. No, children. You are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood."~ C. Collodi -- The Adventures Of Pinocchio

PINOCCHIO - by Norman B

Whoa! Pinocchio!
Poke 'im in the nose,
Way up in the Poconos!
Whoa! Oh, Pinocchio's

Mystery history,
Historical, not hysterical hysteria:
In Hesperia, he was carved
By Giapetto,

Who, in cultural anthropology,
We realize,
Is the same
As the Titan Japetus.

This, of course,
Makes our pal Pinocchio
The brother of both
Prometheus and Atlas.

Giapetto whittled Pinocchio
While bro Prometheus made man.
The father's hand
Fashioned from wood,
The son sculpted from the sand
Of the land.

Does this tell us
Anything about the Acts
Of John and Luke and Mark
And Matthew?

Have we found the ground
Upon which to expound
That Man is not the son of God,
But his grand-nephew?

Whoa! Pinocchio!
Poke 'im in the nose,
Way up in the Poconos!
Woe o' Pinocchio!

(p)1986 (from Deviations from the Norm) Norman B, (p)(c)2007 Norman Schulerud Bie, Jr. All rights reserved. First performed live in 1984. First broadcast on WMNF Tampa community radio in 1985.

Carlo Collodi wrote Pinocchio as a serial between 1881 and 1883. The children's version came out as a book in 1883.

SEE Boccaccio's Decameron, Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Ovid, Pausanius, Apulius, Lucian, Apollodorus, Plato, the Bible, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, R.L. Stevenson's My Travels as a Donkey, James Frazer, Robert Graves, Joseph Campbell, Ed Friedlander's Enjoying Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound.

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[Clobberbob55]

Hmm.

Uncle God.

Gotta nice ring.

[medicinesocks]

@Clobberbob55 you said this nine months ago? wow, don't think i caught this comment at the time. cool. hi there.

[PhilosopherFresh]

wow that was randomly awesome! very cool video thanks for sharing!

[Graygrayandalal]

this is halarioussssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

[ophelia219us]

this guy is really something.