A very good pizza face over to the right—notice the shading.
The first poem in Dirty Dog Boogie goes like this (and is perfect for ‘echo reading’ with a jazz beat):
I had a dirty dog
and I had a dirty cat
and I TOOK them both
to the laundromat...
The students at Chester School in Toronto covered cardboard boxes with tinfoil and made them into the LESYNSKI LAUNDROMAT. Illustrated cats and dogs are pouring out of the washer and dryer doors. On the other side are a lot of bubbles cut out of notebook paper. I thought this was pretty funny. And not something I ever imagined when I was writing the poem.
For some reason, I’ve always known that LORIS LESYNSKI backwards is SIROL IKSNYSEL. In Nothing Beats A Pizza, there’s a poem “Backwards Me, Backwards You” with an illustration of my real self and also of Sirol, my alter ego. Many kids from grade one up have done the same thing, drawing their real selves, writing their names backwards and drawing the opposite selves, labeling both with the personality traits, likes and dislikes they feel fit.
I like the girl with the green and blue face at the top.
I also like the boy at the bottom left here who looks the same with both his regular and backwards name. Must be a Bob.