User:Elle Torito


 * The Ballad of Elle Torito


 * Her name was Elle Torito,
 * She was bullish on the facts.
 * She packed a mean gordito,
 * While needling haystacks.


 * Born: Torito, Eleanora.
 * Her fortune made in lumber.
 * Toreador and Matadora,
 * She rarely lost at Ombre.


 * A U-turn on the Autobahn
 * Got her family out of Germany.
 * At the end of the war they dropped the 'von',
 * The price to pay for obscurity.


 * From Weill, Wagner, cartoon re-runs,
 * Mickey Mouse and Mackie Messer,
 * Elle mastered all her German ihrens:
 * Schokolade Müse. Hasenpfeffer.


 * Dolores Haze. Haze, Dolores.
 * (Wait, wait&mdash;that's someone else!)
 * Was she just a boy of chorus?
 * We hope you like her show. Or else.


 * Vera Incessu Patuit Dea.
 * Her Latin Lover, on the carpet.
 * Dogged, go figure, by Nabokov. (And hey, a
 * Question, Mister: Were you her car pet?)


 * They think she knew enough Russian
 * To ask for food and love.
 * Her nostalghia was thought to be a Prussian
 * Blue as a Kobaltana glove.


 * Ella Torito, "E.T." for short.
 * Fingers better dead than read.
 * Set your Sputnik to ABORT.
 * A severed Bolshevik is dead.


 * They called her Elle Torito,
 * A very stylish fille&mdash;
 * She'd flaunt her incognito
 * In Chanel and Givenchy,


 * But sometimes wore a sporty burqa,
 * Hermès head-to-toe&mdash;
 * You'd lift her skirt and there would lurk a
 * Crescent undertow.


 * As vixens came, this one was cunning.
 * They left her punning in a taxi.
 * She liked to keep the meter running,
 * And thought the Sousaphone was "Saxi" . ..


 * Pity Elle Torito
 * And her pretty little paunch:
 * A single gold Dorito
 * Would not suffice for launch . ..


 * Wiki-wacky Elle Torito,
 * So bullish on the facts!
 * She packed a mean gordito,
 * And carried a small axe. . ..