Drawings by Panos Lambiris
Alec Kitroeff has a rare sense of humor that in this small book, takes him from a skit on Edward Lear’s “Nonsense Poems” (which inspired the title for the book) to the final and true incident of his wife’s friend who helped out at a chidlren’s party. In between, a medium resurrects the ‘Spirit of St.Louis’; a schnauzer buries a Great Dane; a sick Sultan is appalled at the prospect of being treated by Armenian doctors; a flatulent Marcel Prutz records his experiences; the Bionic Woman reduces an assault by bikers to “a pretty shitty gang bang”; Cleopatra is brought the wrong needles and Torquemada forces a victim to ‘spill the beans’. These and many others are guaranteed to bring a smile to a reader’s face as Kitroeff’s other works have done. They are: Greeks that Never Were, The Bananaless Republic, The Dinosaur Years and The Film Festival.