Skeletal Museum


Dan Piraro's Bizarro Comics (September 3, 2023)




Where is the UFO,
eyeball, firecracker,
and the apple pie?

I hunt them daily
in Piraro's comics
cartoon "Bizarro".

In Sunday's issues, comics
is a whole page wide,
and 1/4 page high.

He honors Donald Duck & Mickey,
Charlie Brown and Snoppy,
Simpson, Popeye and Olive Oyl.

But they're frozen, unable to move,
displayed in skeletal form
in an Anthropology Museum.

Found UFO above Mickey Mouse,
Eyeball by Flintstone, Firecracker
close to Snoppy, Pie by Olive Oyl.

Only Popeye seems alive
with his can of spinach—
eat them quickly and pass

that apple pie around—
perhaps the magic potion
will wake everyone up!

Ah ha!— it's working—
Donald Duck goes "quack! quack!"
"Red Baron" Snoppy on the attack!

Fred Flintstone & Scoopy Doo are back;
Popeye and Olive Oyl on the dance floor,
who could ask for anything more?

Whole room is rocking—
jazz music & singing—
drums thumping, trumpets blasting

Zombie tunes playing—
everybody dancing—
clickety-clack! clickety-clack!


— Peter Y. Chou
     Mountain View, 9-4-2023