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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
12 comments:
FLN, WC ~ I caught your later baseball entry & enjoyed it...
Although, alas!
There was no joy in Mudville...
"Brock's Orderly Blocks"
Brock the cop takes bribes from crooks
all along his beat. From the dealer to the card shark
he covets each sop, counting them as his due.
He holds spots for steadies in the street & the park.
Plus prime covered doorways! He dreams of retiring
& passing his posse to the uni in line.
He would unlock a fee for each transfer
maybe by calling it a "blue tax" or "fine."
Everyone talks of "Defunding the Police."
Brock says, "Fine! For my extra 'grease' I'll keep the peace."
~ OMK
Sandy, what's baseball with out a little Casey. I remember that fateful afternoon. I was taking a COBOL Class but we had the radio on. Reggie Jackson hit a homer too but I couldn't be mad; his homers the previous year allowed me to be there. But that's another story similar to Chet's.
OMK, Brock reminds me of the cop in "The Godfather " who gets shot by Michael(Al Pacino) in the restaurant.
WC
"Magazine Romance"
Billy his girlfriend did bribe
to a sexy magazine to subscribe,
to see pictures he really did covet,
and read it--he knew he would love it.
At his home his parents would block
such mail, with no way to unlock.
So he had to depend on Mimi,
the girlfriend he found so dreamy.
His bribe was to buy her a backpack
much neater than her worn track-sack.
Mimi cheerfully agreed
and so his plan did succeed.
Only he had to promise to escort her
and let her read every back order.
On their sofa their shoulders now butt,
while sharing their magazine slut.
I decided to let Misty follow up on OMK 's bribe reference. And she didn't let me down. Nothing like a little porn to spice up a romance(I actually knew a couple that bonded that way)
Then again perhaps it was Playboy and they were only interested in the articles.
I did come up with another bribe idea but if I post it it'll be later tonight
WC
Ol' Man Keith, you certainly gave rotten Brock a good day without a sock or a block. Can't believe the police bought him off with just a little "grease." And on top of all that, he got to inhabit a sonnet, if I remember the format correctly: abab cdcd ee? Brilliant, OMK, brilliant.
Yep, it was only Playboy, Wilbur--they're just too nice a couple to enjoy anything much nastier than that.
Looking forward to your next bribe verse. Meanwhile, have a good day!
Thank you, Misty.
Not exactly a sonnet, although I worked it under the general influence of that form.
When I venture beyond rhyming couplets, I always have the Shakespearean sonnet in the back of my mind.
But in today's example, my meter is irregular, with only some occasional five-beat lines. And I am missing an entire quatrain. There ought to be 12 lines, or three stanzas using the ABAB scheme, before the closing couplet.
Your poem is great. I had to overlook the two strained "mills" in the first couplet, of course, but the theme and the last couplet more than made up for that.
I know the name of the magazine was Slut, not Playboy, because that is what makes sense out of your last line.
I don't think Mimi was interested in the articles.
I think Billy was interested in Mimi's interest in the mag.
Brava!
~ OMK
I may not have been clear enough, Misty.
Brock doesn't get his "grease" from the police.
Even if cop funds get chopt,
he'll manage quite well--Thanks a lot!--
he'll survive
and he'll thrive
on perps' "grease" that he's picked and he's pocked.
All that baksheesh adds up!
Sheesh!
~ OMK
Yes, I had Brock as wearing a badge and getting kickbacks.
As everyone knows conures and parrots have dreams of their own
For some it's one day seeing the cage unlocked as in "This bird has flown"
But Icicle, the green cheek was content with the cage he sublet
Security, nuts and grains, an apple or two. But one thing he did covet :
A certain cracker that that miser Wilbur , that damn hoarder
Would occasionally use as a bribe but now claimed were on back order
WC
Is Wilbur truly a hoarder, or just a creative imaginer??? The latter, I'm sure.
My goodness, a surprising amount of griping and complaining all around--well, except between Billy and Mimi. Hope all ends up well for everybody, though--I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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